Every wizard alone

"No man is an island,Entire of itself;Every man is a piece of the continent,A part of the main."--John Donne"Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth."--Archimedes (apocryphal)Everything I have, I earned. I am no man's beggar, no god's liar, neither servant or ruler. Freedom comes when you have no ties and make no chains. True freedom is when you have the power to not listen to anyone. Society can go fuck itself. The gods can go fuck themselves, in exotic ways. This world? A stop on the road. A cage.Dreams set us free, if we listen. A dark shape chased me, and I killed it, my hands like knives. The stars called me, and I followed them to a nebula, soaring through prismatic afterbirth. I was naked at school, and I hid in stone, warm in the sunlight, full of old secrets. Alone in a dark forest, I walked down the roots of willow trees, into the crystal sky of another dimension. At night our minds flail at the cracks between universes. For we don't fit. We don't fit this world,…