So many things do affect what we say and what we do

Some fill us with broad smiles whilst others make us blue

Where emotions really do come from is anyone's guess

Poets speak of the source of them as the heart blessed



And others refer to emotions being involved with spirit

But I tend to think that is more theology which moves it

Others reference the soul - something quite unreal again

For it cannot move us out of the path of a speeding train



All emotions actually do originate in our head - the brain

Where we conjure up all of our feelings in storm and rain

And some of them we use to build stone walls all around us

So we cannot really feel pain any greater than stored - just



Show the shell which we have formed with brain motion

In order to steel ourselves from the hurt of others' potions

There is no heart, soul or spirit which forms all of these

Only the mind - which is sometimes waving in the breeze



How it can thus build such solid stone walls to fence us in

Is something which confuses me no end for it's not at all thin

And yet we continue dealing with walls made from grey matter

Which are tinged with pain started from places where've spattered



Touches of these other things which we have readily encapsulized

Just because we have chosen not to talk them out - quite a surprise

The very best stone wall remover which I know does readily exist

Is the one which starts with the long conversation, you've missed ...



Christopher W. Thomas

8:40am Saturday 1/3/98