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U N I

You have trapped yourself in this world

Where all is to gain through losing your

True self in the pretence of others.

Clutching onto the odd word or phrase

When all is a daze and you cannot count

Your intelligence as useful, only

Oppressive.

©

◄ To a friend whose work must come to something

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