Before the assassination of the self is complete, there is often a flash of blinding overload. This entry documents the mechanics of "Empathia"—the raw, unprotected ability to feel—and how it is inevitably "enervated" by the demands of others. It analyzes the transition from "seraphic candescence" to a necessary, strategic numbness. Here, apathy is not a failure of feeling, but a defensive "ploy" constructed to survive the "imperial divine."

The Acumen of Apathy

Flowing along a transparent, candescent wire,

The acumen in her gaze,

Equanimity of Empathia, a transmissive pyre

Was receptively set ablaze.

The fulguration in a flash, lit up consciousness

By recondite obscurantists of psychic insights;

Refulgence is effervescently contritional unkemptness,

As sparkling chimerical resplendence invites.

Her sagacious ethereal probity following her stride,

But purity was an innocence any alchemist can enervate.

For seraphic candescence empathizes with what's implied,

Obscenities lie inside the heart of those who can relate.

Parched iconoclastic from the imperial divine,

Amortized fiduciary bargains openly to inculcate.

Worse still for those straddling the line,

Entrapped in a labyrinthine to contemplate.

Envoy ennui, the enemy entranced by engagements to enjoy,

Apathea employed with equanimity, embedded an unassailable, peaceful ploy.

Though Empathia will rejoice through her vilification just to annoy.

Acuity of Apathea, renewed aplomb as her mind's toy.

Lexicon

Acumen: The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions.

Fulguration: A flash like lightning.

Recondite: Little known; abstruse.

Refulgence: Brilliance; radiance.

Enervate: To weaken or drain energy.

Amortized: Gradually written off (like a debt).

Inculcate: To instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction.