Is It Worth It To Hear My Own Voice?

I know how I want to be

I ask a question, state an opinion

And I find how it is that you want to be

Are we healing our regrets?

Or preparing to be judged by them?

I’m not the same, yet I am

If I feel that I’ve hurt you

I stop what I’m doing

Knowing I went too far

An opinion is a sword

And I weep over it

Maybe I should stop

What is accomplished by a provocation?

You react and was it like drinking coffee

Or was your soul under attack?

But for me it’s the way

Am I trying to cast a spell over my heart

To convince it how to change its course

To slow down as time has reversed its wake

Pushing me to the end

Am I a coward

Unwilling to risk our friendship

Over some words instead of a hug

You don’t have to challenge me

I hear you already

I make free choices everyday

I am old enough to know better

But the force of a scream

Is alive and it’s bigger than I am

If I cannot defeat it

Then what I am will defeat me

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