Apologies Are Words

Apologies are words

Half meant

Half why the wrong was right.

My wife once told me

Don’t apologize.

I think she was talking

About apologies 

As automatic lies.

Think about it.

“Sorry I lost my temper.”

“Have you found it yet?”

“Sorry I yelled.”

“I am too.”

Do about it?

A-pol-o-gize!

A different tack 

on the sailing sea.

I am not sorry.

I am in Hell at the moment

And you were just in my way

Why the Hell would you get in my way

When you knew how low I felt?

Starting over

I am not sorry.

I love you, you know.

You’re the one I can yell at,

One who can take a lowdown blow.

I am not sorry.

Except that I am.

I yell, I lose my temper,

And it’s nowhere,

Nowhere, near at hand.

I am sorry.

Know that I am.

I have not slept

Because I am.

Sorry.