one of the few choices you get in poetry

Fear makes you stupid.
If I could chisel any one
phrase into immortal stone
as humanity’s final epitaph
that’s what I would engrave.
Fear makes you stupid.

Fear makes you stupid.
It brings your vision down
to tunnels down to pinpricks
only seeing what you can lose
never what you’re able to choose.
Fear makes you stupid.

Fear makes you stupid,
makes you vote again your own self-interests,
makes you accept an awful situation in the fear
maybe it’s protecting you from something worse,
makes you hate people for just being different
or for being almost the same but slightly not,
fear makes you deaf blind and dumb,
fear makes you stupid.

Love, I don’t know
I’m too stupid to know
exactly what love does
but I know it’s better
than dying in your own head
and that’s enough for me to
throw in with love instead.