Another Metaphor - Apology (C) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Another Metaphor - Apology
I complained a lot I'll have you know, but oh, I
love you so, when looking for houses for sale
in Jeffreys Bay, you found a list with beautiful
homes on which I can dream, you provide the
nourishing roots on which the blossoms of my
imagination can grow, you are the safe anchor
to save the kite of schemes blowing in the wind

You offer practical friendship and help along the
way - thank you, I'm glad you are my colleague
but more than that, a friend who never falters in
her step, a rock on which the house of friendship
can remain steadfast in all storms, a lighthouse
when the threatened ship of adventures meets
loss and pain - I apologise for my earlier wrath

It was misplaced as you are the kind of person I
admire and try to emulate even when it's clear I
can't make the grade, temperamental people like
me suffer through inconsistency working harder
to remain tethered and direct the wild electricity
in our hearts to reality, not frittering time away in
dreams, thank you for your time and help, I shall

Remember that your understanding of reality is
just what our world needs to make it flow without
heartbreak and hypersensitivity to the fluctuations
in the fearsome weather of life's terrible storms &
the carousel of unfounded flights to the deceptive
fictions of our skew perspectives leading us astray...