Emotions of any kind
scare them more than half
to death
leaving them breathless
Calculatedly conditioned by the powers that be
over decades
and centuries
to have as much heart and soul
as giant blocks of granite
or black lifeless lumps of coal
and to not see the pining forest
for the trees
Too tearful?
Too grief-stricken?
You’re hysterical.
Too joyous?
Too loud and passionate in the wake of brutal injustice?
You’re aggressive.
Emotions of any kind scare them more than half to death
Leaving them breathless
They know nothing else;
nothing different
Their default mode?
Vacuously passive
Empty
Hollow
Dead as planks of wood
Like sheep the pack to follow
Emotions of any kind scare them more than half to death
Leaving them breathless
Lavish your own children – irrespective of their age – with extravagant affection?
Pine for them when you’re apart?
You’re unhealthily
inappropriately
attached.
They know nothing else; nothing different
Nor did their forbears.
Nor do their own children.
Emotions of any kind scare them more than half to death
Leaving them breathless
These non-seeing
non-hearing
non-feeling
non-believing beings
with the hearts and souls of
lifeless black lumps of coal
or giant blocks of granite
Calculatedly conditioned over decades and centuries not to emotionally commit
are the reasons why the powers that be
keep getting away with it
AN FRAOCH 