How could you!
How could you
say,
you are so sensitive!
ExTREmely sensitive
to the feelings
of others -
when You
cause me
such EXquisite pain?!
Don’t you know
the acts and deeds
done through love
infuse the soul?
Can’t you see
mere words
of love only appease
the mind -
and seldom convince
the heart..?
Sensitive my ass!
Janet Leigh
HOW COULD YOU speaks to many of us, the misrepresentation of those we try to get to know, or think we have falled in love or lust with. If a person “tells” you that they are sensitive, it is an emotional scam. Sensitivity becomes evident through acts, through responses, through kindness, tears, touch. I recall as a sophomore in HS taking a personality profile in a psychology class. You answered general questions, and your answers or responses were charted on a graph, to the right or left of a median. The right side were the masculine traits, and the left side were feminine traits. The feminine traits were much more prevelent for me, traits like sensitivity and creativity, honesty, etc. I was dismayed that my personality had so many feminine traits. I was a strapping 15 year old, after all. I took the teacher aside, and asked him, “Does this mean I will become a homosexual?” The instructor, who was gay it turned out, laughed, and said,”No, Glenn, it means you probably will become an artist.” And that was the first guidepost on my path.
ReplyDeleteInitially when I posted this poem on this site, I conjured up a pic of Warren Beatty, but old settled down married stud and father that he is, with Annette riding herd on him, it was the Pitt bull that next came to mind.
Glenn