How do I begin to explain?
To clarify the whys and wherefores
To justify the lack of respect
It wasn’t that I meant to cause pain
It wasn’t that I was after more
Just within it all I lost my tact
Over troubled weeks I carried
I took on the tears, the emotions
I took on the task to lead
When I saw others harried
When I saw too much broken
I tried to soothe, to heal, to heed
The tears of others wear you out
Make you forget your own depth
Make you shallow and listless
Turn you away, turn you to doubt
Turn you too narrow, take your breadth
Lead you to foolishness, make you callous
I feel in my soul I owe you sorry
I’ve exploited, been thoughtless
I’ve a deepest feeling of a need
To apologise, to take back my words, I worry
What I wrote was too careless
Written without thought of how it would read
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