Treating people
With the cold loneliness
You are swimming in
You have grown thick skin
And decided coldness
Is the only way to live
Other people
Who have not yet acquired
Your strength for the cold
Are failures in your eyes

You throw ice daggers
At them
As you impose your hard-earned prize
Power over them
Making them sink further
Down
And less likely
To add their gift as
A contribution
To humanity

You don’t realize
There’s another way to live
Where you
Use your own mind
Your unique brand of light
And warmth
To succeed and
To connect to everyone
So that you don’t have
To get mad at the world
For the cold loneliness