# God Told Me to Love

Author: Iaran
Tags: Angst, Dark, Depression, Emotion, God, Other, Poem, Poetry, anxiety, empathy, fur, furries, life, stress, sympathy

God Told Me to Love  
By Iaran Frye-Carter

A man at our safe bunker lights one up  
So I picked him apart  
  
I don't live off a deadly crutch  
Or self-mutilate to escape  
But grasping this seems a feat  
That's just too much to take  
Seeing sorry faces, scarred and soiled  
Part of me falls cold  
God told me to give  
But there's nothing they want I hold  
  
I enter the minds of others  
To see what makes them run  
To see if they truly feel the same  
Just to know we're one  
These tiny lives in bigger pictures  
Deception, dejection by fate  
God told me to understand  
The concept that I relate  
  
Inside our sanctuary  
It's gremlins times two  
From the time emotions are dished out  
To where they're received and through  
A concept of such simplicity  
A fox in a box under locks  
God told me to expand horizons  
It's beyond that, and it shocks  
  
Average Joe goes to work  
Poor Steve can't pay his fine  
And Vanessa, a wolf with two jobs  
Just doesn't have the time  
The tears run down their faces  
No wonder I'm so depressed  
God told me to love  
So I outdid the request

   

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