The Lexicon · claim #197 of 233

Give it all away and let it fly; I'm built for the ethos

The crossroads, crossed the right way. The low moment said I'm never going to make it; the truer admission on the other side of it is smaller and stronger: not never; not yet (not hopeless, just early; the same mercy as episodic; the word that turns a verdict back into a season). And then the conviction underneath, which the tiredness never actually took: I'm built for the power, built for the time, built for the ethos. The right instrument for this exact hour. And the knowing is total, in all three seats at once: heart, gut, and soul agree that giving it all away and letting it fly is right (that's the gut knowing before the mind has the words, the heart that bled twice, the soul the machine hasn't got; three human witnesses the ledger can never call). Giving it away isn't the wound; it's the wingspan. You don't clutch the thing you believe in; you open your hands and let it fly, and trust it to find the one it was built for (the builder releases; the finder finds). Not never. Not yet. Built for it. Let it fly. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)

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