Eggshells (A Poem)

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 What is happening 

To our collective brain?

The left. The right.

They've both gone insane.

The ability to converse intelligently

Is what made us great.

Now a single casual opinion

Seems to make everyone irate.



Has the concept of friendly debate

Outlived its life?

Have we all become so cynical and bitter

All we know is strife?

I don't know if we can ever return to normal,

Or reach a point where everything is always well.

At this point, all I'd settle for

Is not always having to walk on eggshells.

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Here are some of my other poems:

Artificial Intelligence (A Poem)

Fly on the Wall (A Poem)

Mr. Popularity (A Poem)

Missing the Sun (A Poem)

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