"QUIET"
Sssh...
Hear the silence.
Listen.
You may not have before
Too busy talking
delivering demands
ignoring the signs...
...worst of all,
exercising your childish tantrum.
Sssh...
Don’t talk too much
Your ego is too bloated and loud
You’re out of touch
You’ve asked a lot
even with so little they’ve got
Sssh...
Watch their micro-expressions.
Can you feel the tension?
Blame them for not speaking?
Perhaps you haven’t been listening.
This boat is slowly sinking.
Sssh...
Why is it so hard for you
to put yourself in their shoes?
They don’t fit?
Of course not.
The noise you’ve caused
has filled the atmosphere
with such unpleasantries.
Sssh...
Quiet.
Listen – although not all you can get.
Listen to them more,
than demanding to be heard
and understood...
...before they choose to walk out the door,
because they’ve had enough of being ignored
that they wish not to put up with you anymore...
R.
