[net.poems] Emotions

mhauck@ihuxk.UUCP (06/16/83)

Emotions	6/16/83

Waves swept forward and drag me with them.
Time calls but laughs as I reach
World of spinning thoughts of- 
Does it matter?

A world worth of life in seconds
Movement fast and slow taunting
Reach but never touch
What is existence?

Scream to understand, it all
Confusion of emotions 
The way is-
Why do I even try?

Let the emotions flow
Rivers of tears and sobs
Escape to the-
Is anyone listening?

And finally a hand reaches
I grab and hold on tightly
Rescued to his world
Someone cares for me!

M.J.Hauck

plw@drutx.UUCP (KerrPL) (09/25/84)

          EMOTIONS

What is life but emotions?
We experience them each day.
We can wake up feeling out of place,
then by afternoon, it would be the month of May.

It is how we deal with these emotions,
that determines our outlook.
If we let the negative take over,
You could almost read it like a book.

For, negative thinking creates a bad seed.
You surrender you inner peace to its power.
Once it's planted into your subconscious, your
soul becomes like milk, and soon would sour.
				Patti Kerr

hilliard@wivax.UUCP (Lisa Hilliard) (10/17/84)

***
Not meant to be offensive, just meant to get some stuff
off my chest.  Comments appreciated.
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They reared up uncalled for, from an inside torment
and anger I tried to ignore.
Cursed by the need to placate and appease.
Unable to express the unjustness and violence I feel.

I want to yell.  I want to argue with you and tell you
that you are an arrogant male.  
You think you know so much and can walk all over everyone.
I want to tell you that you are rude and full of hot air
and when you speak you do so to build your own ego.
 
But I stifle it all.  Needing to bring peace.  
To try fairness.  To believe the best.

But you chipped away, piece by piece by piece. . . 
Walk all over, and over.  So insensitive to any needs but your own.

Ignorant male.  Don't you see their are others besides yourself?
Is your insecurity so great that you cannot look past your own needs?

Reared in a society that tells us how to be, 
you remain insensitive and insecure, adding to my
growing understanding of men.
I remain silent, trying to be sensitive, trying to 
accept the brunt of your callousness.  Until
it all bursts forth in emotion and anger and tears,
adding to your growing understanding that women are
ruled by emotions only and no logical arguments live within.

They came up and out quickly before I could stop them.
They caught you and I both off guard.
And then I could not say more, could not tell you why
they were there in the first place, could not try
to make you a better person by sitting and talking it out.

And now I don't care.  If I shut you out, then I don't have
to care.  And it doesn't have to hurt.  Just a little
. . . insensitivity . . . 
is all I need to deal with you.

		Lisa A. Hilliard
		16 October 1984