Sweet-Weather Days

I realize I've shut too many people out.

 

 

To hold you in the sweet-weather days

Was a task

I loved.

 

I ignored your humanity

When it touched its ugliness,

But it became too sour to swallow,

So I gave you up.

 

But I too have monsters unleashed

And never brought home.

I too have devils never re-caged.

 

And I have grown

And I have lost.

Been in snow

And sweltered in the heat.

 

I'm breaking my stone-carved rules.

Forgiveness, too, can be sweet.

 

 

 

Reviews

[DavidRyan]

I love the line "I'm breaking my stone-carved rules". Such an honest moment. There are things you say, "I will never put up with this....I will never be with someone who does that...." and then you get thrown in that situation and are forced to realize the humanity in everyone and decide for yourself whether or not it's worth sticking out. Great write.