The End of the Labyrinth of Pain – The Pendulum
Fool that I was — to believe there could ever be an end. There is no end. Only repetition, disguised as progress. Only pain, reshaped, refined, and returned. I underestimated the labyrinth —its corridors rebuild themselves in stronger, crueler forms. I am not walking through it —I am the one buried alive inside it. Inside myself. The idea that life could become perfect — or even still — was a delusion for the naive. Utopia is the lie we tell children. People drown themselves in pills and pretty distractions, fooling their minds into thinking they’ve been saved —but salvation died the moment they stopped searching inside. I won’t pretend. I won’t lie to myself. I won’t be sedated by false promises. I choose the sharpness of truth. I choose the burn of realization. There is no cure. There is no escape. Life is a pendulum — a savage rhythm of agony and illusion. It swings between flowered lies and blood-soaked truths. Joy is a trick — a brief echo, a flicker, a performance. Pain is the co...