Anger

Anger

4/26/2015

Anger is a pain, deep in my chest

It throbs, it pulses, it will never rest

A red haze descends and constricts my sight

Until everything seems bad and I just want to fight

Or run away, and seethe, quietly alone

And any confrontation I try to postpone

Until it boils up and I can’t hold it in

My stomach feels nauseous, I feel too big for my skin

And my head feels like it will pop

And I’m not sure I can stop

The tirade of words that wish to spill out

Though I wish I could do without

The haze on my thoughts, so I can think clearly

As anger covers all and I nearly

Do something I don’t want to do

But I try to take a deep breath and break through

The fury seething like a volcano

And my whirling emotions like a tornado

So I can calmly face the problem at hand

So the cause of my anger they can all understand

And we can fix the problem that created this emotion

And we can stop this ceaseless constant erosion

At the walls of the dam that keeps in my voice

And hopefully now I can have the choice

To notice that anger, that seething hate

That causes me to groan and be irate

And instead we can talk and solve the problem

And if we get lucky we can get down to the bottom

Of the anger and there will be a solution

And we can come to a calm and quiet resolution.