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Sam Oliver
Poems
Jun 2010
The Stigma of Emotion
It's inhuman to ignore emotion,
But why am I expected to have none?
Not expected to love,
Not expected to cry,
Not expected to care about other people.
Isn't that inhumane?
Isn't that wrong,
To see just a tool,
A means to meet your ends?
An instrument to throw away or lend
As soon as you have no use?
Yet no-one cares about emotion,
The yearnings of my heart,
The burnings of my soul,
And over that,
I have no control.
I can't change a thing on my own,
So could I have your efforts on loan?
You know I'm good for it,
It's a proven fact.
All I've done my whole life
Is pay people back for nothing.
So think what I'd do
To be treated human for once?
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Sam Oliver
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