{"id":4320,"date":"2026-02-07T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T14:19:17","slug":"verdict-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axis-v.com\/en\/verdict-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdict: Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sentenced to liberty. A mortal privilege.<br>Beneath a leaden sky, colors are washed away,<br>We are prisoners of our own reveries and narrow galleries,<br>Where time has gnawed at hope like oxidized treasures.<br><br>Being is sticky mud. It crawls on bare skin.<br>Things press down in a heap, ugly and blunt.<br>Litter has swallowed space in the musty ether,<br>Like flies in syrup &#8211; wingless and blind.<br><br>A glassy, invisible eye &#8211; a silent warden.<br>It mints every gesture on a steel guillotine.<br>In the mirror &#8211; no one. Only a paled gaze<br>Searches for an ancient phantom in the frozen depth.<br><br>A desolate horizon. A lack of light and heat.<br>Without God or director &#8211; a broken flight.<br>Alienated, belonging to no one&#8230; In the epicenter of evil &#8211;<br>The executioner of oneself, and oneself &#8211; the entire extinguished world.<br><br>Away with weak compassion! This cold is the highest dignity.<br>I drink the black void like a goblet of wormwood.<br>The last meaning has vanished, charity has fallen silent &#8211;<br>I will dissolve alone into the night. I have chosen this guilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentenced to liberty. A mortal privilege.Beneath a leaden sky, colors are washed away,We are prisoners of our own reveries and narrow galleries,Where time has gnawed at hope like oxidized treasures. Being is sticky mud. 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