That Which Hurts Is So Easy To Say

That which hurts is so easy to say but that which comforts needs careful consideration we can blurt out what hurts but what comforts needs time for some thought the one is always loaded ready to fire the other needs priming consideration and thought the one is delivered with forcefulness and thunder asking no quarter the other with a tentative smile and that obligatory affirmation “Nooo, I mean it.” the one tears deep the other uplifts we know this because we all have been bedevilled by both we have delivered both and we have received both yet nothing has changed one cannot help thinking that it never will change why is that I wonder.