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to draw your sword.\n\nNow you speak,\n\nand veils lift.\n\n\n\n\n\nMastery isn’t louder than illusion.\n\nIt is quieter than fear.\n\nIt holds a frequency that falsehood cannot stand near.\n\n\n\nThere is a kind of silence\n\nthat says more than any sermon.\n\nA kind of gaze\n\nthat asks no questions and permits no lies.\n\nYou’ve found it.\n\nYou don’t use it to punish.\n\nYou don’t use it to dominate.\n\nYou use it like breath.\n\nSoft. 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