The Gullibility of Pain

[rayheinrich]

In everyone there lives
a weakness for the language of
the psychic charlatan.
That love may reach beyond
the confines of mortality.
The sensible shut it away.
Though who dares blame the gullible,
whose naievety comes not
from stupidity but pain,
visions of the gulf
extending after death.

Fathers, mothers, children, friends,
gathered in the balding head
of the stranger at your door.

Ha, yes, you know I'm going to sugggest getting rid of the last
three lines, hate those summations.

Other suggestions:
In everyone there lives
a weakness for the language of
the psychic charlatan;
that love may reach beyond
the confines of mortality.
The sensible shut it away;
though who dares blame the gullible
whose naivety comes not
from ignorance but pain,
from visions of a gulf of life
extending after death.