Hostile Passions Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

What from me,
You expect I do?
When your passions,
To once have had compassionate.
Are now,
Out of style and dated with age.
Becoming more sympathetic,
Towards those heated...
Disturbed into a boiling rage.
What has happened to your excitement?
That adventure to explore life.

What is it with you?
What has happened to that joy,
Together we knew.

My love for you,
Has stopped to deepen.
That chemical attraction.
Took off with distractions.
When you bring to me,
Your latest encounter...
Of an evil misdeed.
You chose to accept.
And not walk away from it to leave.

And this you expect me,
To understand and comprehend.
After you accuse me,
Of not having the patience...
To listen how you were verbally abused.
By someone else.
Neither one of us know or knew.
Listen up!
These will not be the days of my life.
I didn't introduce you,
To all the b.s. I've lived through.
And I am not going to pretend,
A wanting of your nonsense...
Is worthy of my giving you,
An attention you believe...
I should give and do.

These days you wish,
To invite in our lives to live.
You can have that negativity to yourself.
I'm choosing to live mine,
Much more positive.

No debates will I have,
Over who did what to who.
All I want for you and me to agree.
Is to do our best to leave that b.s.
Left where it is.
And not have it shared.
As if we can solve,
The mentalities of others...
Wishing us to also become crazed.

Now...
Who said what to you?
You believe you can release,
Their hostilities on ME?
End it quick.
Know this...
Around me,
Whatever it is someone else to you did.
Is not going to be with me,
A welcoming to start it as a habit.

"So...
You don't want to here to me what happened? "

Of course I do.
Why would you want to say something like that?
What happened?

"You know...
Before your lecture,
I could have given you details.
Now...
After your lecture,
My compassion returned.
You have a way of stimulating me,
At the right time."

What am I going to do with you?

"You can either...
Lay, stand or kneel."