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Let Me Love Barry
I feel like crying whenever someone puts me down for holding Barry.
I respect others’ property.
I respect whatever and whoever others like.
I’m one that thinks that love for anyone or anything is justified.
Why shouldn’t I love Barry?
Because she’s a stuffed koala?
Because she doesn’t have a beating heart or has lungs to breathe?
I am loyal to Barry.
Let me be loyal.
Let me feel all of this powerful love for her in me.
Let me freely think of Barry.
Why shouldn’t I feel all of these beautiful things just because Barry is filled with cotton and has plastic eyes and a plastic nose?
Everyone has something or someone that they cherish and I don’t care what or who they may be.
How about we encourage people to feel all the loyalty and love that they may feel regardless of who or what they reserve those feelings for?
I feel that those two feelings are widely absent in this world anyway.
I don’t feel that anyone should be obligated to have strong feelings for humans only. I’m not one to advise anyone to reserve their loyalty and love for humans only because I…
