Now! To Do It To Do...Now! Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

It isn't just the distrust between us,
Used as a tool to demean.
It isn't just the rush to keep secret,
Affairs we dare but in public seen.
It isn't the betrayal we both share.
To then declare we care...
For one another.

It isn't just the way we met to confess,
How love can be disappointing.
And it isn't just what was done to who or why,
We make alibis to score our points.
It's the way we start our own conflicts to insist,
Someone else is the blame.
To have caused all of it.

We've got to find a way to stop,
The hurting.
We've got to find a way to sit and admit,
We inflict our own pain and sorrows.
And we've got to stop jumping to conclusions,
Leaving ourselves to be the fools.
Proving it and with evidence...
By the things we continue to do.

We've got to find a way to stop,
Feeding on the agony.
And emotions we allow each other to bleed,
Now!
To do it done to do without excuses.
Or attitudes meant to accuse and abuse,
Now!
To do it to do...Now!
To do it to do and done to prove it,
Now!