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Do you like the word power    
  when you are not in control?      
      
Do you like the word dominance      
  when you are submissive?      
       
Do you like the word master      
  when you are a slave?      
       
Do you like the word manipulation      
  when you are being used?      
       
Do you like the word puppet      
  when you are at the end of the string?      
       
Do you like the word wealth      
  when you are always poor?      
       
Do you like the word chess      
  when you are only a pawn?       
       
Do you like the word contest      
  when you never win?      
       
Do you like the word blame      
  when it is always your fault?      
      
Do you like the word guilt      
  when you have done nothing wrong?      
       
Do you like the word freedom      
  when you are out of choices?      
       
Do you like the word democracy      
  when your vote does not count?      
      
Do you like the word speech      
  when you have no voice?  
   
Do you like the word poetry      
  when you haven't a rhyme?      
       
Do you like the word truth      
  when it is always a lie?      
       
Well    
  then what do you like?
Written by KhaoticKat
Published | Edited 14th Jun 2021
Author's Note
This is about the antagonistic relationship between certain words and the actual physical roles people play out in their day to day lives.

Do these tensions between language and behavior drive us towards emancipation or do they keep us in chains? How are these conflicts resolved?
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