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Zywa Mar 2023
Rights never will be

granted, first you must suffer --


and then you'll take them.
"Fury" (2001, Salman Rushdie)

Collection "Low gear"
Devin Ortiz Apr 2018
Let's talk time.
My time, it cannot be bought.
My time cannot be leveraged.
You cannot assert yourself,
Imposing your time, money or effort,
With the expectation I owe you a thing.

I'll respect your time,
But you best respect mine.

Though that's never been the case,
Power has been your tool, to buy the time,
Of those you could not even give a second.

So all these years later, when I've mastered time.
When I've learned to control, bide and enjoy, time.
You cannot, waste time, my precious time,
Nor can you come back and expect my time.

— The End —