Two rooms away<\/p>\n
Enough to muffle, never enough to silence<\/p>\n
The tone carries through; Frost’s sound of sense<\/p>\n
But snarled, sharpened, and lacerating<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Frustration meeting rage, puberty facing age<\/p>\n
Mother versus father, father versus son<\/p>\n
Never me, though. I only listen<\/p>\n
I can’t drown out that rhythm of venom, that cadence of wrath<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Slammed door, sarcastic greeting, drunken retort,<\/p>\n
nasty reply, escalating insult, menacing pause,<\/p>\n
and before ten minutes are out they’ve found eachother’s throats,<\/p>\n
my hands have found my ears and my tears, my eyes.<\/p>\n
Nobody knows you like your family.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I get it.\u00a0 I understand the sides, the reasons, the tactics,<\/p>\n
And the agonizing, fundamental, waste of it.<\/p>\n
There’s no point to this battle; no growth, no change.<\/p>\n
No speeches or screeches or infuriating “SO”<\/p>\n
Can mend what’s broken in them, in us.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Tonight could be different.\u00a0 I could march in there.<\/p>\n
I could tell them where they’re wrong and right and wrong-est.<\/p>\n
But they’d see it as another army on the field.<\/p>\n
So why join a war with no winners?<\/p>\n
How do you pick a side when you love both and hate the fucking fight?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And so I listen to the people I love most in this world rip into one another,<\/p>\n
Their barbs and shouts and pronouncements muddled and blurred by wood and drywall.<\/p>\n
Biting back tears and words both<\/p>\n
Two rooms away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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