A Bad Reaction

You may say that I've grown bitter
It could even be true
If only from time to time:
times of words adding insult to injury;
occasions that turn out to be special
in all the wrong ways

Sometimes, I think,
I can only take so much sweetness
before I respond with anger
Beauty gives way to ugliness,
and the war inside frightens me,
my peaceful intentions falling away

But even that must end
and then,
my friend,
I simply have nothing more to say


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