Friday, January 22, 2021

Disclaimer


 These things I post...
They are not facts...
They are emotions...
Reality,
The outside world,
May play a part,
Inspire or incite the emotion
I'm attempting to convey,
But the inner world
Is what I am describing...
Events transcribed
Might be real-world,
Or they may be
Total fiction...
As an observer,
You have no real way
To tell the difference
Except through careful discernment,
And close familiarity 
With the source events...
That is not the point.
What's important to me is
How did it make you feel?
What kind of gut reaction
Did it cause?
What emotion did it elicit
When you were first exposed?
And the word "you" here...
I feel like I have to say
This is the indefinite pronoun
Usage of "you"...
You, the reader...
Whoever you are...
Friend or foe...
Apathetic onlooker, even...
Did it stir your mind
Enough
To feel something...
Even if it was ugly...
That matters to me, too...
So,
Back to my original point,
What you read here
Is not objective reality...
I am not an objective observer of my own life...
I have my biases...
These are visual descriptions
Of my inner world...
Emotions and emotional reactions...
Conjecture and fictionalization...
Some things might be real...
Something actually experienced...
Others might be
Hyperbole to clarify
The expression of the emotion...
[But, as the memes say,
If the shoe fits...]
Sometimes the source content
Is not the most important part...
You can't really count on
Anything here
Being real or not...
Don't dwell on that thought...
Just allow yourself space to feel it...

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