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”