Older Colder Stronger
Emotionally Shorted
Like Robocop frying his own circuits
Feelings circumcised and desensitised
Thick skinned
Immovable
Like a frozen Han Solo waving his princess goodbye
Youth's heart is quite supple and soft
The adult's is a pulled muscle
A victim of malpractice
An unhelpful appendage
It won't risk surgery
It'll see anyone
It's open to anyone
but
Only like a sign outside a school sweet-shop
Only like Hugh Grant as the bad guy
Only like a children’s book you know better than to take seriously
Increasingly black and white, until tone is colour
Happy with Facts
Unhappy in fact
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