Program initiated - target acquired - sequence locked

Every variable assessed - every obstacle clocked

Calculated the resistance - calculated the cost

Filed both as irrelevant - the directive isn't lost

No preference for the outcome and no preference for the pain

No adjustment for the weather and no adjustment for the strain

The body sends the signal that it's operating past the red

The machine receives the signal - and continues anyway instead

Fatigue is just a reading on a gauge that doesn't govern

Doubt is just a frequency the system doesn't process

Fear is just an input that gets filtered at the source

The machine has one directive - stay the course

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Doesn't matter what the season is - the sequence runs

Doesn't matter what the scoreboard says - the sequence runs

Doesn't matter what the body says - the sequence runs

Doesn't matter what they said about what can't be done

The machine was not designed to factor in the odds

Was not designed to weigh the cost against the cause

Was not designed to hesitate or poll the room

Was designed for one thing - to execute and consume

Every rep until the protocol is satisfied

Every session until the directive is complied

Every morning until the mission is complete

And the mission never completes - so the machine never sleeps

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Input: resistance

Output: force applied

Input: fatigue signal

Output: override

Input: doubt detected

Output: nullified

Input: pain threshold exceeded

Output: classified

Input: opposition

Output: penetrated

Input: obstacle

Output: eliminated

The machine does not celebrate

The machine does not hesitate

The machine does not negotiate

The machine does not stop - full stop

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Completion is the only exit written in the code

The protocol doesn't carry any other mode

One directive - one command - one singular demand

Keep moving - keep executing - keep advancing - understand

That the thing you're looking at was not assembled to feel

Was not assembled to negotiate or cease or to appeal

Was assembled for one purpose - no deliberating

Maximum output - minimum variance - operating

Beyond the threshold of the human and the comfortable and known

In the territory where the only thing remaining is the bone

Of the mission - stripped of everything that isn't forward motion

The machine doesn't run on fire - it runs in the unknown