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ReAdSaLoT On September 23, 2019




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#1New Post! Apr 08, 2011 @ 05:10:08
Finding Middle Ground


In the midst of pain;

confrontation.

The shackles of sorrow

fail to concede fault.

A desperate malingerer in grief

weeps for consolation.

Conceding to the matriarch's desires

denies comfort to anyone daring

to disregard

or even take note

of her lack to compromise,

join forces in the wake of misery,

comforting each other to find inner peace.

The death of her child,

the loss of his lover,

has set one as a boxer the other a dove.

Pent up anger sends her to rage,

he knows his emotions, won't forfeit his ways.

Respecting this man's feelings she backs down awhile

then flares into resentment,

exasperating the one who's struggling to bare

fury inside, to undo what went wrong.

They each pace the floors as the world will not cease.

It's not his job to pacify her,

what about his heart, he's been living a blur?

Emotional trauma pushed to overdrive,

stop forcing the issue, her child, his love, didn't survive.

To reach middle ground , she can't pierce his wounds daily,

he needs to share to her once in awhile.

Realization of a sore barely mended,

permanent scars need to shrink; she will try.

sjo/jazz 4/7/2001- I wish this would format the way it should on here.
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