Head and Heart

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For years I tried to find the difference.

I drove myself insane looking

for varying results, but all I found

was one truth.

It was previously believed

that the separation of people was due to trivial things.

Your source of income and its impact

The neighborhood you reside in

Who designed your vogue clothing

Maybe it was even the color of your skin

No, it is not material that divides us.

It’s how you think, and what you think—

Your perspective

It is also how you feel

and what you choose

to have empathy for.

It is the Head and Heart

that separates us all.

I am not like others in the head.

I think.

About the faces I’ve never seen,

The places I’ve never been.

How to close the gap

in common decency.

Ways to allow compassion

to bloom again.

I am not like others in the heart.

I feel.

For the faces I’ve never seen, and

places I’ve never been.

Worried, disheartened

even about the lack of

morality and the growing apathy.

For years, I tried to fight this difference.

To turn off my head and silence my heart.

Maybe if I didn’t think so much

I’d be happier,

and if I didn’t care

no one could hurt me.

This ideology is comical to me now.

It would be a waste of a miracle

that is the delicate and intricate wiring of my brain.

A waste of the chambers that push my blood

and my love into every fiber

of my being.

Why it is this thoughtful head

and this passionate heart

that separates me from you.