The Impossible Battle

Dear people who refute facts for emotions,

Why must you be this way?

When I prove you fact after fact

to give you my truthful

reasonable argument.

Yet no matter how many times I repeat myself for you

and your small-mindedness

you refuse to change.

To take one second or moment

to truly think through what I have said.

I understand your emotions

are fiery and strong

but why fight so hard

When you are so clearly wrong.

With much confusion, my Logos.

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This poem truly personifies my anger, I love debating, but when someone takes your argument and their sole purpose for disagreeing is that they don’t like it! It makes me so angry. I used a lot of enjambment and minimal punctuation to emphasize the lines as though the writer is going on an angry rant. I am particularly proud of the ending, I threw in a rhyme to sort of showcase their sense of superiority over Pathos. Then I end it off with the writer having been “my Logos” this was to show that it’s not necessarily me who is saying this, just the facial debater in me, because I too have emotions and understand the refusal to solely hear facts, but it still makes me angry sometimes!