I am sick to shit of the advice
and the coercion
and the bullying I’m receiving
in this time of life.
Don’t tell me what to feel
or how to act
or how to be.
Don’t!

I do not want to hear from you
that it’s all right to cry
to feel
to let it out
and be open about my emotions.
Don’t tell me what to do!

Don’t try to make me care
just because society
and genealogy
and my fucking therapist
expect me
to have a breakdown
because of
the matters of the day.

I will not cry at your behest.
I will not feel anything
simply because you told me so.

I will not feel at all
because I am not that sort of person
and you’re seeking to force me
to behave
in a human way
is prejudiced
and oppressive
and making me feel very much down-trodden.

Some of us –
the abandoned
the emotionally crippled
the sociopaths
do not care
when bad things happen
and losses are found.
Some of us are too bad to cry.
Why can’t you understand
and simply let
we unfeeling monsters be?