A Heart's Illness

See, my soul is now filling with fumes

When someone I barely know assumes

My silence means I no longer am ready

To be around for you to see me....

Why make uninformed decisions

And lack with it a little compassion?

How could anyone wish for me to respect

When from me too much already they expect?

Am I not now old enough to know

How to act within my life though?

Never try to put upon me your expectation

When there is nothing between you and me but conversation....

And no, I no longer live by the shadows of my past

Could you not simply stop speaking too fast?

I may not respond immediately

But I have a life to live fully

Wait a little patiently, your words will be read

Should you show such a thing, I would be nicer instead...

~*~

Never assume,

For your life it will consume

Never expect

You will earn a little respect

Never should your mouth open

Too fast for the truth to soften

The anger your earned

I hope this lesson you too will have learned....

There is no account between us to be due

I owe nothing, least of all to you

My silence may well have been valid

And your harsh tone left me livid

Pressing me over my lack of conversation

Wasn't a reason for you to give an opinion

I breathe and live of my own accord

To speak in the heat of disappointment you cannot afford

I am nothing but words left upon a screen to you

And with this issue I am completely through...

My own babies in a more charming manner 

Know far better 

Than to offer their ill fated opinions

While assuming that it is for them or you an option

To demand to know for what reason

I wasn't coming to take part in childish conversation!

If you hope to make a friend in me

You will need to open your eyes and see

That I am not that alone in this world at all

And in this ill fated gap you better not again fall...

Laurence Ramos

January, 14th. 2013