Blind Narcissus Poem by Mark Sauer

Invisible chains are unbreakable.
Steel can rust, melt or break, but the shackle
Self-forged in the mind is unshakable
By any but he who enslaved his own soul.
Some thoughts are cement, to harden the mind,
Some arguments grit, to seize the machine;
Some visions are meant to render us blind,
Some speech serves solely to hide what words mean.
Who makes himself slave, others cannot free:
You can't flee the plague if you are the plague.
Blind narcissists will not suddenly see
Their own shriveled eyeballs in a mirror vague.
The hardest thing, and the simplest too;
Strike down the tyrant that lives within you.