I suppose my greatest talent
is my ability to feel apathetic
about everything and anything
on command in any situation

if I don’t want to feel
I don’t have to

if I don’t want to hurt
I don’t have to

if I don’t want to be ****** up
by all those emotions
that have consumed
so many others

I don’t have to

I may come off as uninterested,
or bored, or arrogant but really
I’m just coping, coping like any-
one else would, just in my own
special way

my own special, unimaginably
effective way.

because I don’t have to feel.
I don’t have to be dragged
down.

I can’t be dragged down.

not from that wonderful place
I’ve escaped from before.