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Numbness of the Senses

Written on April 30, 2026, “Numbness of the Senses” portrays the danger of a society in which violence, lies, war, and political deception become normalized. The poem sharply condemns the process by which repeated exposure to stimulation dulls human sensitivity, eventually weakening even the will to resist. Through images of music, politics, warfare, media influence, and mass psychology, it questions how people are manipulated into emotional numbness and passive conformity. At the same time, the poem serves as a warning: once human sensitivity is lost, imagination, empathy, and democracy itself begin to erode.

  

 Numbness of the Senses

 

Fast-tempo music no longer satisfies.
We begin to embrace melodies that violently stir the heart.
I still listen to Coltrane’s soul-shaking sessions-
perhaps because rebellious young blood still boils within me.

 

We gradually grow accustomed to the daily flood of abusive words.
For some reason, the feeling of anger grows cold.
We stand stunned before unbearable and grave realities.
Perhaps this is why the spirit to resist withers away.

 

People are deceived by outrageous lies and surrender to blind belief.
The winds of criticism hesitate to blow.
We are shocked by the conformity born of constant conditioning.
Perhaps this is the emptiness against which there is no resistance.

 

Across the world, wars driven by desire spread like wildfire.
The citizens of invading nations care only for the enormous cost of war.
Mass slaughter by powerful weapons has entered the age of AI.
Perhaps this will numb the senses even further and steal away imagination.

 

Let the senses grow numb.
Make the extraordinary become ordinary.
Music inflames the will for war.
It makes rage against hatred boil over.
Hostility is manipulated and guided toward victory.

 

Let the senses grow numb.
Rulers weave strategies filled with deception.
They endlessly plot conspiracies and cast themselves as gods.
They tolerate no opposition, threatening others while posing as pitiful kings.
Perhaps this is how division and discrimination are transformed into profit.

 

Let the senses grow numb.
Even clenching a fist or waving a flag appears hollow.
A suffocating isolation settles over those who retreat into their own worlds.
Resignation toward rulers only deepens the crisis.
Perhaps the backlash against oppressed democracy will inevitably come.

 

Written on April 30, 2026. Needless to say, this is a dangerous situation.

 

 

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