It seems reason dreams
of completion, but,
does it care if completion happens,
in harmony?

(Don’t show your feelings, don’t show
you’re human, don’t emote, don’t promote
absences, don’t, don’t, don’t…)

Once, again, I used my ‘power’, my ‘charisma’,
or maybe anger, or maybe my paranoia, spurred by drink,
to command another
not to cower, but,
do I have the right?

It seems emotions dream
of absolution, but,
do they care for completion,
or, disharmony?

(Don’t feel free to be able to
be human, don’t promote, don’t emote
abstracts, don’t, don’t, don’t….)

Once, again, which is why I keep myself
imprisoned, with exanimate reasons,
I commanded another
not to cower, but,
isn’t that what I do?

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 6/29/05