Holding Back
Sometimes people tick you off
But do you then attack?
Likely not, for most of us
Are trained in holding back.
Saying what you really think
In every circumstance
Would be like stomping someone’s feet
When you are asked to dance.
Instead, we tiptoe ‘round the truth
Or else don’t say a thing
For honesty is better off,
At times, to not take wing.
It might be very freeing
To express the way we feel
But most of us are too afraid
Of what that might reveal.
*Inspired by the Netflix show “After Life”
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