Anonymous
7/14/2025, 5:29:09 PM No.24549454
It is not peculiar for what it reveals,
But for what it insists on hiding.
Not strange in its depth,
But in its insistence on staying shallow
And shouting as if it speaks from the deep.
Coombait psychology is not a mirror,
But a carnival trick
Painted to seem reflective,
But warping what it sees,
So that men may love their distortions
And call them truth.
It flatters the ache but never heals it,
Names the hunger but feeds it lies.
Its voice is velvet, but it sells decay
Draping rot in ribbons,
Until men kneel to their own unraveling.
It teaches not how to rise,
But how to cope in collapse;
Not how to love,
But how to long without end
A script of endless deferral,
Where catharsis is promised,
But climax never comes.
They do not see the cage;
They call it a chapel.
They do not know the idol;
They name it insight
For when the ache has a name,
The soul thinks it has spoken,
And stops digging.
There is no mystery in this fog,
Only the illusion of depth
For men too tired to swim.
It is the poetry of giving up
Pretty,
Polished,
Profitable.
But beneath the layers of indulgent ruin,
There waits the raw wound still unwashed;
Not because it cannot be cleansed,
But because all the soaps are scented lies.
And healing, true healing,
Smells not like roses
But like salt;
And stings before it soothes.
But for what it insists on hiding.
Not strange in its depth,
But in its insistence on staying shallow
And shouting as if it speaks from the deep.
Coombait psychology is not a mirror,
But a carnival trick
Painted to seem reflective,
But warping what it sees,
So that men may love their distortions
And call them truth.
It flatters the ache but never heals it,
Names the hunger but feeds it lies.
Its voice is velvet, but it sells decay
Draping rot in ribbons,
Until men kneel to their own unraveling.
It teaches not how to rise,
But how to cope in collapse;
Not how to love,
But how to long without end
A script of endless deferral,
Where catharsis is promised,
But climax never comes.
They do not see the cage;
They call it a chapel.
They do not know the idol;
They name it insight
For when the ache has a name,
The soul thinks it has spoken,
And stops digging.
There is no mystery in this fog,
Only the illusion of depth
For men too tired to swim.
It is the poetry of giving up
Pretty,
Polished,
Profitable.
But beneath the layers of indulgent ruin,
There waits the raw wound still unwashed;
Not because it cannot be cleansed,
But because all the soaps are scented lies.
And healing, true healing,
Smells not like roses
But like salt;
And stings before it soothes.
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