it is a learned skill
a practiced one -
that is honed alone
in the darkness
it is gravity, a strange
and silent pull to learn
how to be like others
i had it because i was
hurt: he has it because
he is in constant hurts
the lights, the scratch
the noise, the constant
emotions
none can teach enough
it is a skill taught: inflections
it is a skill taught to feel nothing
taught in the dark, alone
after all go to sleep
to ease oneself
