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I wonder how they can ask me how I am With such little emotion in their eyes Almost as if asking for the state of my being Is simple courtesy Nothing more, nothing less I feel obligated to give them appropriate responses Reciprocating the lack of emotion And sincerity It has become routine For me to hide such barbaric emotions I sometime walk with those I call friends But a strange feeling arises Where suddenly I really look Between the group I’m in, and the strangers passing by And my eyes widen Because I see no difference I drown in this A sea of emotion and human personality Watered down to its most dilute of senses By our societal conditioning Telling us to shove our emotions inside Away from any grasping hands I build these walls Piece by piece by piece Until I forget to do things which were previously common Such as feel And actually care about how you are doing I let myself go Carried by the current of this sea Joining the many others around me already drenched in its expanse I no longer wonder why they have such little emotion Only ever replying “I’m doing well, how are you?” And even when it isn’t true I wonder if anyone really cares
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Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 at 5:19 PM UTC
The Sea
I wonder how they can ask me how I am With such little emotion in their eyes Almost as if asking for the state of my being Is simple courtesy Nothing more, nothing less I feel obligated to give them appropriate responses Reciprocating the lack of emotion And sincerity It has become routine For me to hide such barbaric emotions I sometime walk with those I call friends But a strange feeling arises Where suddenly I really look Between the group I’m in, and the strangers passing by And my eyes widen Because I see no difference I drown in this A sea of emotion and human personality Watered down to its most dilute of senses By our societal conditioning Telling us to shove our emotions inside Away from any grasping hands I build these walls Piece by piece by piece Until I forget to do things which were previously common Such as feel And actually care about how you are doing I let myself go Carried by the current of this sea Joining the many others around me already drenched in its expanse I no longer wonder why they have such little emotion Only ever replying “I’m doing well, how are you?” And even when it isn’t true I wonder if anyone really cares
ShallowSky
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ShallowSky
20/M/Los Angeles
Jun 18, 2018
Jun 18, 2018 at 5:19 PM UTC
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