For Valentine's D(ism)ay

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Why not change it up this year and

celebrate the annihilation of the heart?  

Here's my contribution:

[Ayla]

Liked the verse but I have an almost pathological need to take a positive view on most anything. Think it comes from having a mother who was clinically depressed for decades. It cast a pall over our family and a blanket over her spirit, and I just could not reach her. At 80 this is slowly changing .... Celebrating hurt, despair etc is a bridge too far for me. Perhaps this will change like most things tend to do ....

Safe travels

Aisla

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Feb 14, 2015 4:38:37 GMT 8 Ayla said:

Liked the verse but I have an almost pathological need to take a positive view on most anything. Think it comes from having a mother who was clinically depressed for decades. It cast a pall over our family and a blanket over her spirit, and I just could not reach her. At 80 this is slowly changing .... Celebrating hurt, despair etc is a bridge too far for me. Perhaps this will change like most things tend to do ....

Safe travels

Aisla

Well, despite its dark tone, it really is sort of a positive poem. It's like an ode to one's independence against the traditions of love and matrimony. I made it sound devilish to make it more poetic. I had a long period of time where I didn't write anything. I had no idea what to say. Then in the past few years a bunch of inspiration just flooded in. I surprise myself with every new work. The same thing happens when I go years without playing piano. I'll feel inspired to play something, and some new skill emerges like magic. One day I will combine the two. I've been wanting to start a music project forever, but I can never find anyone to work with.

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My latest anti V-day poem!

[EchelonHunt]

As someone who has been an aromatic asexual for my whole life and recently come to accept this fact, these poems speak to me on a deep level. Thank you. You have a unique, expressive way with words, that's for sure!

[Deleted]

Thank you for your kindness. I'm glad my words have an effect on at least one person.

[Taka]

i'm both romantic (in a way) and sexual (in many ways), so the poems don't "speak to me".
but i do hear their tale, a story of a different kind of human being from myself.

you do your thing, and celebrate breaking free from society's expectations of loving to be loved.
and i'll just sit here and wait for that special someone who'll give meaning to valentine's day.
since i don't care as much about being loved as loving...

i don't think i'd ever want to date a common cis-hetero guy, they do everything so backwards.