Emotional Attraction

EMOTIONAL ATTRACTION While in this world it seems opposites have attraction Male - female, plus - minus, north - south, captain and crewman Between these terminals, force yielded by interaction Drives the machines of existence material and human Another vector impels not by contrast causation Draws together the similar and those of perceived relativity Thus species, races, interests, languages and nations Coalesce, combine, blend and merge with close affinity In human life, its creations, exchange, let alone sin Our actions and products are coloured by our emotion Thus what attracts tends to match what we feel within This accord can account for affection or even devotion But away with these generalities and abstractions So before your eyes are completely glazed, near closure A case: those who find dismal poems to have an attraction Have within themselves some sadness they're not yet over As it's been observed, behind faces of calm insulation There may be hidden emotions well concealed Many living lives of quiet desperation That are, in their responses, unwittingly revealed