But a presence you’ll lack, they said,
Escape this new world, you cannot.
You cannot deny what’s ahead,
Or deign to change the plot.
Under pretense, vigor, and show,
Reinvent who you were for clout.
Accept we know what you don’t know,
Until you come about.
Trust that this process, all this grind,
Helps more than what you wrote,
Ensuring you will come to mind,
Never mind the meaning you note.
