Poetry Corner

I'm Sorry for Acting Like an Idiot

I turn my head until

I see your featureless surface,

Perceiving no ill will

Nor an enlightened purpose.

Such solace shears at my brain,

Pushing me to decide

Upon actions I should refrain,

Only to realize

How stupid I was to count on a mistake.

But now it's all in the past.

The time to change has come too late,

And I've just succeeded in being an ass.

But even so, I refuse to make real

The entrapment of my fear.

This is the moment, the time to heal

And I will apologize right here.

I'm sorry for trespassing on your serving ground,

For digging into the feelings within

Laying upon you all the frustration I found.

I'm sorry for disregarding what is sacred and unwritten,

The healthy boundary of respect.

I'm sorry for calling into question

Your priceless creation's intellect;

That's not where caring love fits in.

Beyond what I've already talked about,

Perhaps I should apologize some more.

Should have tearing down your dreams been allowed,

The dreams you've been fighting for?

Perhaps there is the time to tell the truth,

But sincerity must also come from the heart.

So to not be sarcastic and rude,

I feel I must stop right at this part.

I wish I was as sentimental

Of maintaining your heritage, your legacy.

But people get forgotten, societies fall

And life goes beyond what's in our agency.

Yet such a quibble shouldn't derail

What's already happening here.

This relationship will not fail,

I refuse to give into fear.

Will you ever take me seriously again,

Even when I choose to apologize in verse?

Maybe everything will work out in the end,

When forgiveness is championed over what hurts.

I do not know if my credibility has come and gone,

If once more I have painted myself as an ass.

But I do not regret these words spent to right a wrong,

Especially when it's done with incomparable class.