Paradoxes

Whomever you’ve detained You’ve retained, Whatever you’ve maintained Equally sustained, The feeling you repressed You also suppressed; The person you depressed You haven’t at all impressed. One is with another already in battle When brought into play one’s mettle; There will still be new protesting “moos” to settle, When you’ve started grazing long unfed cattle. Any time your lips make a plosive You’ve acted like an explosive; Your siblings you fend You nutritionally defend; Whenever you’ve started one praising You are a morale raising And some self doubts erasing; Not just words phrasing. And when you rant Your desire near their grant Just as when your tiredness you pant People now know you “can’t”