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Why nothing ever matters

Here is a principle of authority
I would like to address.

It shouldn't be so
but in many cases the importance of things
or most certainly the effects they engender
are defined more by their envelopment
than by their engrained value.

This shows how people
defile and strip the meaning
of all things.
Everything gets peeled and skinned
to atoms.

A word
spoken by one
gets a different designation
than it would get
if spoken by another.

People derive meaning from
their idea of others.
From the impression
left by others.
Which is just conjecture
if you're really honest.

More impressionable people
find more meaning.
They stand in front of it
looking at it
wanting it.
Frantically rolling in it.

Less impressionable people
absorb more meaning.
They are doused with it
through a dearth of urge.
Disinterest is like a lustful magnet for substance.
It scrapes to the bare flesh of a spreading chasm.
A seeping, solidifying imbalance.
A vacuous pit with steep slopes.
Around it
everything most definitely happens
with a lazy talent.

Fear is a poor incarnation of respect
but still an amazing lubricant
for affecting judgment.
Imprinting simpleminded account
with wicked implications
onto a molten resistance.

Rubbing it in like a lotion.
An impertinent application of sorts.
The convenient thing about fear is
that it is easy to summon
for it is always lingering.
It just needs a good fanning
and the wick will eagerly pick up the flame.

In a way
being fearless
is the faculty to steer clear from influence
and to appoint your own
definitions.