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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

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Richard Lamoureux

Date: 12/2/2017 9:26:00 AM

Interesting thoughts. My answer to the above musings is that people possess a negativity bias and therefore are naturally drawn to the more base emotions. We comment on what we know and few people are in the midst of happiness.

Geoffrey Brewer
Date: 12/2/2017 5:04:00 PM

Interesting comments. It seems we are in a fair degree of agreement on this. Thanks for taking the time to consider my rather long winded musings