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The clocks no longer lie.
They count down.
Each second lands heavier than the last,
a verdict delayed so long
it begins to rot in the room.
Institutions creak under the weight of waiting,
rules thinning to suggestions,
laws bending until they forget their shape.
What was meant to restrain
now only documents the collapse.
Power learns there is no consequence,
and once learned, it never forgets.
It settles in, rearranges the furniture,
puts its name on the door,
calls permanence stability.
The future stops asking permission.
Steel answers to one voice,
code executes without doubt,
and conscience becomes inefficient.
Orders move faster than thought,
and thought becomes a liability.
Borders harden.
Choices shrink.
People disappear quietly at first,
then routinely,
then proudly justified.
The air fills with slogans where oxygen used to be.
Those who warned are labeled hysterical,
then disloyal,
then unnecessary.
Silence is rewarded.
Obedience is praised as patriotism.
Fear is renamed order.
Children grow up learning caution instead of hope,
learning which words are safe,
which questions cost too much.
History stops being something we study
and becomes something we survive.
And when removal no longer happens,
when delay becomes destiny,
what follows will not be sudden.
It will be methodical,
legalized,
explained away in calm voices.
The danger is not the explosion.
It is the normalization of the fuse,
burning day after day,
while everyone pretends
the smell of smoke
is just the way things are now.
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