Use your words
Say anything and I will listen I will be your impartial jury But if you need me to pick a side I'll do that too And if you need me to confront the criminal I will be the bailiff You can be the witness; tell it all I will be the judge, I will hear every word And strike the gavel to the podium for order Order in your court But today I am biased My opinion is twisted against you I refuse to believe that I think truth Because I've had clouded judgment for far too long Emotions being the basis for action, not rationality Now that's always made things interesting, hasn't it? If I were a rational man I'd have known a long time ago how to quit useless thought How to throw off addiction Or how to push myself out of emotion altogether Rationality is a shackle in many ways And I'd rather not be hindered or confined The root of the problem is not emotion in general But a specific emotion Probably sadness, brought on by loss With a medley of others thrown in for added effect A potent toxin created deep within, scrambling my thoughts It plays tricks like a hallucinogen Causes suffering like a depressant Infects at all hours of the day, even in sleep Who am I to be a rational thinker When I live a life intoxicated by these virulent emotions? Oh, what I wouldn't give to be free of this emotion But it's more like a parasite than a toxin A parasite that leeches joy and siphons happiness And there's no real prescription for a cure There's a solution to the problem rooted in rationality But the pathogen destroys all thoughts of that nature It isn't completely hopeless though Eventually we all become so weak That the parasites in all of us have nothing to latch onto And they die And we get better I feel new strength within me this day Less sick than the day before The disease may flare up every now and again But the real problem is gone And I can be rational now Putting the diseased thoughts to rest I have the remedy for love
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Author"Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." - Anais Nin Archives
February 2023
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