Warning: if you are reading these, and not reading them out loud, you may not complain that you do not understand

i don't want to steal your joy
i guess that is an unintended consequence
i didn't mean to awaken your conscience
i wasn't going to call you out but
i thought you would be awake by now
i have been watching you move your mouth
I have re-trained myself not to only pounce
not to be Pavlov's dog
the bell rings and i go off
no harm intended
and when is it ever?


two problems will require two solutions
more often than we are willing to look for them
if the second bird goes un-eaten, then the wasted effort saved is again re-wasted
finding a truth in stereotype is not ever going to justify hate

this is not about taking away your mania
i don't even need you to be evened-out pavement
this is not that you cannot have anger
not a confrontation
not an intervention
i don't make the rules
just level your tempered
steel reaction
to the actual situation
and keep on your mind the thoughts others have
not for you to see their judgment of you
but so you can see past hasty self-improvement tactics
into
what is happening outside of your eyes

your
shifty mind


i know we both think we tried
i've re-written this a thousand times
still, it's not quite what I wanted to say
you caulk the frame
cannot gauge the loss
bar the reason
en-cage the riot
I have an Idea-
instead,
be quiet.