i found separation from pain
a serration from suffering
my heart grew dim
i cared for very little
i became a taker, selfishness rose up in me
consumed me
i took the things i wanted, caring not of the consequences
this is what emotional detachment had given me
once a man that cared too much
i was now a man that cared too little
i could not even shed a tear for the passing of loved ones lost
"this is the way of things" i said and waved away the pain
not knowing that the pain could teach me far more than ignoring it ever could
it might have saved me from unhealthiness that i let wash over me
that i bathed myself in
i share with you because
to live in denial of these experiences would be
well, useless

we only get one lifetime this lifetime
in your lifetime, are you going to continually relive the same day
the same place
the same pattern of living
organic entities carving their colors into history

we are built for more, are we not?
we are built to explore
create
unite

these symbols of our kind
powerful in dreams, in present, in the eyes of others
they are really empty
it's true

but what of the thought
that treating everything we see, hear, taste, feel, experience, and are as unsatisfactory
this thought can never lead to satisfaction

thoughts? comments? no dogma please.