Survival

Hardening one's soul
to the affect
of interaction

versus

holistic involvement
of one's experience
in affect

the former
be nutty
like a mad hatter
consumed by
baby ruth middling

the latter
tempestuous
open to pain
like violining fingers
that bleed
yet continue
to play

inclinations?
agree
disagree
fuck y'all

The real question
being
survival

The desire to be
Stone and
Problematic
and
the one to hurt
as opposed to the fluid
shape shifter
that is my mother;
the hurting

though I said it never to be
it has come
question being to embrace
or efface?