Learned Emotions
If you read a textbook, there are three learned emotions:
Love, guilt, and shame
Are these truly learned, or so natural they're misunderstood?
We know the basics; the bad, the good
But these three - they lie dangerously inbetween
Guilt and shame:
Their manifestations may be modeled on experience,
but love?
Love is the only thing we are born with
Life is fast and fleeting,
we leave clawmarks on the world because we know we'll leave it
Nothing is promised.
Some are born without arms, without legs
The one thing we all possess...
is love
In this world our only lasting belongings are internal
And love- it is the outward embodiment of our souls.
Love is not a learned emotion.
Love is the most human thing in the world
It is the only thing any of us own.
