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Her "Default"

July 7, 2014
By RojerThatCat ELITE, Canoga, California
RojerThatCat ELITE, Canoga, California
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Favorite Quote:
"We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less."- Sword of Truth (Kahlan)


Someone asked me once if I have a default.
Someone beside me answered that she “feels too much.”
I thought that absurd.
Are emotions and such,
Any less important than these words?
To feel too little is easily a flaw.
To feel too much is like saying you’re too much human and too little plain.
Feeling too much deserves a didactic brawl.
You would have too much to lose and too little to gain.
So no, I don’t suffer from the same “default.”
One of my flaws is my lack of touch
To understanding how you could possibly see a wrong in feeling “too much.”


The author's comments:
Someone once made this sort of complaint to someone close to me, and I sensed the judgment behind their claim of "feeling too much." It shook me to the core to think of the absurdity behind that claim, and this poem practically wrote itself.

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