No Hard Feelings
To my fellow men I say,
tell us what you’re feeling.
And as you’d expect,
I get a lot of blank stares.
I know it’s a dirty trick
to ask a man his feelings.
In the spectacle of a befuddled man,
we see the helpless little boy.
But on the rare occasion
when I do sit with other men,
to the extent we can reveal
what it is we’re feeling,
I see how easily I turn
most emotions into anger.
When I am sad
it becomes anger.
When I am afraid
it becomes anger.
When I am unhappy
it becomes anger.
Once I overheard a woman
tell a friend it upset her
to see a grown man cry.
I only wish she realized,
how badly we need to do so.
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”
This poem has been adapted and was originally shared on April 6, 2017, and was titled Men and Their Feelings. The original is included in Tomorrow Could Be Wonderful: Brian's Poem of the Day: 365 Daily Meditations Vol. 1.
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