#1097419 added September 15, 2025 at 12:11pm Restrictions: None
September 15, 2025
September 15, 2025
It's International Democracy Day
as ours slides away.
I am not on the fence
about Charlie Kirk,
a man I didn't know
and now recoil at half-mast flags
flying for him.
I finally grasp
that Freedom's tower has fallen.
Liberty slips,
my heart shatters inside my bone cave.
There will never be
a New Eden.
13 lines--13 stars
prompt: something that will always be out of reach
Dark Goddess Tarot--XVI--Destruction--Kali--Illusions, whether cherished or not, shatter.
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