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Francesca KENNEALLY, 14<br />
Northcote High School<br />
NORTHCOTE VIC<br />
A Poem For The Emotionless<br />
From the moment we are born,<br />
we are told that emotion is natural.<br />
Crying isn’t weak,<br />
anger isn’t unnatural,<br />
happiness isn’t hard.<br />
But my feelings are my own,<br />
including the lack thereof.<br />
So when I don’t cry<br />
at an animated characters death,<br />
or the bombs that fall every minute<br />
I’m not heartless.<br />
And when I’m not outraged<br />
by the injustices<br />
a million miles away,<br />
or even the ones that affect me in every respect,<br />
I’m not stone cold.<br />
and when I see a void,<br />
an endless white,<br />
an expansive nothing,<br />
when I think of my future,<br />
I’m not depressed.<br />
Because in that void,<br />
there’s a small light<br />
burning so bright it blinds all else.<br />
The light goes away,<br />
the light gets masked,<br />
the light gets forgotten.<br />
But it’s there.<br />
Always.<br />
so remember,
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