I’m Begging

Perfect peace!

What a relief!

We’re travelling so well

Life’s… ‘Oh so swell!’

Smiles all around

No scowls, not even a frown

Until I…

put a foot wrong

Ushering in my ‘swan song’

One careless interruption

Triggers an ‘atomic’ eruption

Or an earthquake in the depths of the Mariana Trench

A tsunami threatens to drench

Sincere apologies offered profusely

A waste of breath… they’re treated obtusely.

I wish…

we could calmly discuss

this, before it snowballs into a fuss

Each proffer our side

Refrain from stooping to deride or criticism so snide

But alack and alas

It seems too ‘grave’ a trespass

To forgive and forget

Instead it festers in sorrow and regret.

Why can’t

I say this aloud

Unwrap the suffocating shroud

From our languishing lives?

Put away our sharp knives?

I love you!

I promise you, it’s true!

Instead, I…

Make valid excuses

Rather than utter abuses

For both you and for me

If only I could make you see

You’re not the only one struggling

With limitations, challenges you’re juggling

Each of us are intrinsically flawed

I wait ’til your anger has thawed

Suggest help from outside

But the suggestion’s denied

I beg, demand and plead

But you insist there’s no need.

Why can’t…

I say it out loud?

Am I too proud

Or just plain afraid?

“We must deal with this mess we’ve made!”

The time’s come…

I’ve prayed and I’ve prayed

We can no longer delay nor evade

Our desperate need for help… it’s a fact

The time has come — almost passed — for us to act!

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Written for the “Things You Can’t Say Out Loud” challenge.