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Back to the agony

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M.C. Escher | METAMORPHOSIS II (1940)

woodcut in red and black, 19.2cm x 400cm

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lol took me awhile to find this gif again… Escher is GOAT!

Do you think God watches from above, tallying every slip and every choice we make?

Do you think they shake their head, click their tongue, silently muttering, “I told you so,”

when I cut a line, bend the truth, snap at the driver who dared cut me off, or refuse a slice of cake to my own brother?

Do you think every action is etched on an endless scroll, deciding our fate while I cling to my small selfishness? Do you think, “I saved it for myself” will ever be enough?

Is there any excuse in this world that could save me at all?

Because they are God, and they love me, even as I falter, even as I sin, and yet they made me in their image—so why not make me flawless?

Why must heaven be a place I beg to enter, as if perfection were the only key?

Is there a backdoor, a crack in the walls, a secret way in, just to taste a fraction of it— to return and say, “See? They’re just like us!”— so we can sit outside the gates, cross-legged, and endure the injustice, knowing it wasn’t that we weren’t worthy, but that their system was never built for us?