The Unapparent Offense

For awhile, my mind has been surrounding all the things (relationships, friendships, covenants) which have been broken due to things I've said either behind someone's back or to their face. Sometimes, we forget to calculate how powerful words are. This is merely a reflection of damage I have done. When you know better, you do better; and with this momento now on my desktop, the excuses to run off at the mouth or now next to none. I pray this blesses you.

Love and Blessings,
Jay

The Unapparent Offense
by J.R. Scott for Rasilliant Enterprises (c) 2011

Reception lackluster.
A simple “hi” they can barely muster.
It’s been years since you’ve spoken—
Communication apparently broken.

You rejoice to see them, yet they reserve,
To engage in a reunion definitely deserved.
What reason could surround this insecurity?
Barely willing to even acknowledge me…

Skimming through words at nearly the speed of light.
Not seeing the seeds of discord silently set aflight.
A few dangerous echoes, from these lips did resound.
And a covenant relationship was barraged to the ground.

Words often flow like a Polynesian spring,
but what they (do) infer can often bring…
A separation of heart like no man has seen—
next to nothing can, for this offense redeem.

Your presence on their memory now eerily stains,
though they never took time to sit and explain.
Those hurtful, poisonous words of apparent disdain—
that in silence they chose to inwardly contain.

Your many good deeds now overshadowed,
by something your baggy tongue carelessly tattled.
Carelessly negating to select prudent words to say,
an innocent soul has now lost their way.