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Detaching From Politics [1]

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Date: 2023-05-28  

Letting go....

Detaching From Politics

I am detaching myself

From the pain of politics,

My emotions can no longer survive

The battering

Of bullets killing children,

The enslavement of women's bodies

In certain states,

The thwarting of solutions to our real problems

By too many politicians in pursuit

Of petty power,

Of a Russia whose inherited Mongol policy

Of fighting wars by destroying cities and civilizations

Is in full force,

And all the other insanities,

Both local and international,

That our personal stupidities enact.

Oh, I will continue to do my due diligence as a citizen

Dispassionately,

But no longer will I invest my emotions

In the outcome

Of my votes, petitions, donations,

And policy advice through poetry, protests

And otherwise.

Good deeds will be done as occasion and ability allow,

But I am reserving my emotional experiences

To the enjoyment of the day

And to loving myself, my animals, friends and family,

People – in general, and life everywhere.

Carl Scott Harker ©2023

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My latest book of poetry is now available on Amazon, you can find more great poems in here: An Engineer of Words.

As suggested by a comment, I want to reassure readers that…

I am not going anywhere nor cancelling my monthly donation.

I just realized today, I could no longer afford to make emotional payments for OUTCOMES! I will do the work, but am giving up on my expectations of the results – because clearly too many of them are beyond my control (and are in the hands of of whom I deem to have broken minds and hearts). I guess I just need to make a decorative statement that I hoped others would find useful.

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