Don’t Rationalize Your Irrationality 

A Poem

Abena Konadu, Contributor, Lit Mag

So will I not defer to you: 

Lest we both forget about morality 

Ever changing ever true 

Let us both not play our cards 

Shant we enjoy a truce: devolution of powers

For it is unclear to what depths you infiltrate our soul, alas shards 

of your “care” and predisposition pierce this heart of ours 

 

You, so confident have always been 

confident towards many more than I: 

I, so devoid of color may once have seen 

The northern lights, once have experienced that confident lie:

 Never foreign never familiar, 

The power to scrutinize but not to console?

Neither a being nor a figure

Never friend never foe

 

If you pursue, you might prevail 

Inventory gained: heart, soul, and mind 

If I pursue, I become frail 

On the dawn of young adulthood was a contract signed

Who shall find the strength to separate us now?

Let us be the friends we never were 

You, the proprietor of my heart, soul, and mind 

I, now just a tenant there