On The Right Road Poem by Rick Elpers

Conversation talked of daily
Angst not of my inspiration 
Calming my fears relaxed
Enough to listen as your needs 
Spilled out, to render advice
With kind words that flowed cautious
Stepping quietly across a mine field 
That one day previous was
setting fires right and left, wrongly
Arguing scolding demanding
Defending insisting dangerously
At the edge of ruin
What relief it was to only tread
Softly maybe trusting your word
As I needed to hear them 
What possible smiles maybe laughter
Peppered our newly found 
Common ground, trying expectation 
To feed the desire of reconciliation 
That has eluded us so strongly
As we persevere to an intended
Outcome of reverence 
To each other