Mind Tricks

Itself into thinking

It knows what it knows

When it only knows

What it has been

Programmed to know

Pavlovianly trained

To react to stimulus

The way it is expected

To its reptilian origins

Fight or flight to survive

Eat or be eaten to live

When will it be free

To know so much more

When inner and outer

Space is open to explore

Instead of sealing its doom

By its desire to consume