Emotional Numbness

By Vusi Moloi © 2011

He or she is remote
Unable to emote
To fall short like asymptote
To fail to touch the asymptote
Facial expression robotic
Like unexploded ballistic
Cerebral mastery of syntactic
Mechanically wired robotic
Emotional numbness
Emotional absence


To explode like the ballistic
To disregard the syntactic
Unable to emote is ruthless
Like ballistic is emotionless
Incapable of empathy
Unable to connect emotionally
Unwired at the Eukaryotic
Unable despite Eucharistic
Emotionally numb
Emotionally absent

Contextual Commentary

The brain structure PLT is responsible for emotional processing. It can be induced, through environmental conditioning, to become fear based and over-reactive to an environmental stimulus. If another brain structure PFC does not balance out the PLT then an organism is a cold fish with no altruistic sentiments. Such a cold-blooded organism becomes a threat to the survival of those who stray into its life’s orbit.