We remember because we have to

== we remember it because we have no alternative ==
we remember it because we are bound to it so.
we remember for there is no freedom from this cage
== the cage! ==
smothers
us!
we breathe
in dust!
and sand
== it binds us ==
it blinds us
with ropes of flesh
ropes of flesh...?
you wish!
That's cables
of tendon
thick
meaty
tendons
they dangle
they taunt us!
but we don't give in
we are desensitized to them
they wave like a finely crafted pocket watch, in front of our own seven goddamn eyes.
But we? We were already entranced.
== it hurts us ==
it hurts
it stings, even
but honestly?
once you're in the flow?
it can't hurt you that much.
you get use to it
like long lost family
you learn to accept in an inhale, and let go in an exhale
== it does all this ==
but most of all
it teaches us
it never taught us that which we already knew.
this may have been stockholm syndrome, but it wasn't guidance it gave us.
it never wanted to. it wanted children. 
children to look after, children to care for, children to never leave. 
it "wanted" to guide us, to show us how to fly for ourselves. 
But in the end? It clipped our fucking wings.
== and so here we are ==
remembering because we have to