Reason Versus Feeling...

 “Natural affection only, of all my sentiments, has permanent power over me. Reason, and not Feeling, is my guide…”  Mr. St. John in the book Jane Eyre

Reason reprimands my want

Feeling vexes Reason

Thought, caught in between the taunt

Of goodness and treason

What I should, Reason would do

But bold interjection

Swaddles Feeling with excuse

And hand-foot objection

Nature’s law is kind because

It caters to Feeling

Reason causes us to pause

To sounder appealing

Feeling is a flighty wind

Never out of season

On one hand its change of mind

But on the other, Reason

Sometimes Reason tests me sore

In life’s wheeling-dealing

A vexatious tug-of-war

With the roar of Feeling

But to Reason without Feeling

Were bloodless affection

Let the two then mingle keenly

Rendering me human

© Janet Martin