it's unfortunate that people aren't as perfect as you believe them to be

or perhaps, that you find such open and brazen emotional expression so distasteful

after all, it is where you derive your power, yes?  in the act of emotional expression

and as such, such acts blatantly disregard the value you place on expression

for it is something to be saved and to be finely crafted, to be carved into a weapon

for the purpose of eliciting a measured response

let yourself believe in the possibility

good things may happen!

it's nice to have good memories, right?

good, and sad memories.

because they wouldn't be good if they weren't sad, and they wouldn't be sad if they weren't good.

[i speak in the silence between the spaces]