Another Rant

“Tell me what it takes to stop this madness.”

It takes a strong person to fight this back.
It takes an even stronger person,
to let it go.

I want to cry,
I want to feel sad,
I want to let myself be.
Just be.

But I’m a machine,
a monster.
I have trained myself so well
I have successfully learned to detach everything.
Throw the emotions down the drainpipe when necessary,
because “emotions just cause more pain,
more suffering.”

Yet, that’s wrong.

Emotions don’t create pain.
People don’t create pain.
Pain just is.

The feeling that first surfaces,
the thought that bubbles up unto our lips;
To say that is freedom.
To just let ourselves be.
Breathe through it,
and just let it go
is true freedom.

Freedom from self-oppression.
Freedom from isolation,
from ourselves.