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Paralyzed, my body moves
creating the lies,
writing a fiction
for the world to read.
I am lost, making my way
through the routine,
the daily show
to smile, to speak, to act.
I seem better today,
my performance fools you,
living in the circle
to return to the end,
to start again…
Ciaran Burke