Some thoughts traveled from distant places
Are not born within our borders
And must pass through heightened security fortified by age old tradition
The norms of societal culture
The misgivings of prejudice and misplaced judgement
In order to arrive peacefully in our minds
Our minds are high-walled fortresses
Where Security Councils gather to preserve comfort
Enforce what we have been taught to value
And discern and determine what is real
We depend on our minds to guide and aid us from one day to the next
Some of us see our minds like muscles
That we exercise with theorems, riddles, thoughts, and thought processes
We gather and store information
This line begins a section that plays with the dichotomy of the mind: powerfully liberating yet incredibly easy to chisel away at until independence is no longer within it’s scope. 

FCK THE BELIEFS