"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.

2019-05-12

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