Artwork Sourced From Pinterest. Artist: Jim Steranko.
TEN-SEVENTY
by Antonio Rocco S. (Rocco Valentini)
TEN-SEVENTY 100°C
Sigmas do not exist
Because power does not lie
In what you call yourself
It lies in what others believe you hold.
TEN-SEVENTY 200°C
Rejecting the social hierarchy
Doesn’t change your position in it,
Nor does it change
Your influence over it.
TEN-SEVENTY 300°C
Obscurity rebranded
Is still irrelevance.
The world doesn’t bend
For those who simply step aside.
TEN-SEVENTY 400°C
In a society likened to a burning building,
He who watches the blaze without lifting a hand
Stands not with the hero
But with the arsonist.
TEN-SEVENTY 500°C
Stand before the ruin or above it—
But never beneath or beside it.
Be the Alpha who prevents the fall,
Or who rises like it never broke him.
TEN-SEVENTY 600°C
Atlas should not shrug.
Footnote: TEN-SEVENTY is police code for fire.