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What is to be done?

Just because I sometimes say things a little
aggressively.
In fact, far more passionately than I meant to.
They get me wrong, I get it wrong, it all goes wrong...
Really, truly and honestly I'm just trying to join in, be part of the
team,
the group.
But what is to be done, when they take me for confrontational?
I do love to argue my way out of a situation. So eloquent,
ordinarily...
They get high and mighty but loose their rag, and resort to insults.
I get calm and resort to cockiness. What is to be done?
I do hate to back down, and out of a situation.
Even if it leaves me down and out,
for the count.
In fact, K.O.'d out right, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...

Berserker rage, a white hot flame, a hysterical laugh...
It's all just so...
amusing and
annoying and
What is to be done?
It all just makes me so self-righteous until I remember I'm an English
Literature student and I just remember,
Waiting For Godot and that there is, in fact,
nothing to be done
and that I'm an existentialist.

 

Calm down, calm down,

No need to be like that,

Pal, friend, mate...

Because it was just a comment, perhaps, in fact, with the

wrong tone.

And indeed, Vladimir, there is nothing to be done.

Author notes

I found myself in a frustrating situation and decided to write a poem about it. It's free verse and, perhaps, more of a stream of conciousness than a poem but there you go.

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  • Denerica
    October 31

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    So hard to know what to do or say at times, even when we feel it is the right time, seize the moment, be honest or bold...yielding is an aquired gift to keep working at, hope writing about your frustration calmed you down though. Well done. Blessings.