My tone...
"Always so professional"
He says playfully
I thought he was telling a joke
My words
"Always so formal"
He's more blunt than usual
I must be overthinking
My sentences
"With that monotone voice again"
His sharp eyes roll
I must have said something wrong
My mind
"The way you talk is different"
What does he mean?
Confirming something I've always known about me
My thoughts
"I hate when you talk like that"
Talk how?
What did I do now?
My heart
"Can you just show affection for once!"
He shouts
Causing anxiety to sprout
What was wrong?
If not with my words
But with my tone
I have always been somewhat monotone
I can be expressive, but my tone and words can sound too formal and monotone. I don't mean to come across as distant, but my choice of words is simply how my brain decided to work. Someone I know would bring up how formal I sounded and would joke about it pretty often. Only to have my way of talking being an increasing problem for him, shouting at me for my tone and voice lacking affection.
It was the first time I felt conscious about the way I talk.
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Life
PoetryA collection of poem's written about events, feelings, thoughts, and emotions. Like a diary to vent out a part of ourselves that no one will every know about; the poems are simply an attempt to capture the most unusual and abstract aspects of the hu...
