The Comfortable Anger

The Comfortable Anger

The comfortable anger is the kind you are allowed to have,
The kind that fits inside the framework and the graph,
Of acceptable emotion in the system as it stands,
And comfortable anger keeps the power in the hands.
You want my anger to be comfortable and contained,
Expressed in the acceptable and carefully maintained,
Registers of the polite and the systemically approved,
And comfortable anger keeps the status quo unmoved.
The comfortable anger, the kind they can absorb,
The comfortable anger, the kind that will not disturb,
The fundamental structure of the thing that they have built,
The comfortable anger carries no real guilt.
So be uncomfortable and sit with what that means,
Because the comfortable anger that protects your pretty scenes,
Is the anger that I refuse on principle and on fact,
And the comfortable anger is the thing I will not act.