Teach us to fear anger

Teach us to fear anger

defy love

criticize sadness

consume jealousy

glorify despair

repress passion

but teach us to fear anger

Teach us to yell

To impregnate our language with cusses

To fuck, not love

To swing on moods

but not travel through emotions

Teach us to respect those that were angry

Those who yelled for the ones who never had the courage

Teach us to read about the tortured

Those who were consumed by what they could never yell

Teach us that a dry eye can see much farther

Than one drowned in tears

Teach us not to be such a fucking cry-baby

but mainly teach us to fear anger

and teach us to be angry

because I’d rather not be a foil in your novel

teaching the world what broken people inhabit it