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A Touchy Subject

I’m happy

But I’m interested

I’m happy

But I’m interested,

Interested in what makes others unhappy.

 

I’m happy myself

But I’m interested in how others can be sad

Mad,

Happy, any emotion, really.

What makes people tick?

How can people be happy?

How can people be sad?

How can people be mad?

 

Emotion is such a touchy subject,

Well… not physically… but we all feel it.

I guess it makes me sad

When others are sad

And it just makes me wonder…

Wonder how they got to that point…

 

Maybe I shouldn’t care,

I mean they’re only strangers.

But I wonder,

I wonder…

I wonder,

Because I’m interested.

Does that make me unhappy?

 

April 9, 2012

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ben-dubois
American
Published
Jun 21, 2012
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This poem is kind of just a glimpse at my thought process when thinking of/talking to others.

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