Fighting Words

Mean the words you say
Say the words you mean
In and out of conversations
As we skate around our truths
Backed into corners we find ourselves
Fighting with the strongest weapon known to man
Not our hands but our words
The mightiest swords
Our words…
We taunt one another and it goes back and forth
We linger on each others words until we’re drenched in tears…
My fears succumb me and swallow me whole as I’m in the corner trying to redeem my soul…
Playing with fire and getting singed by the flame
Round for round we go
Until the knock out
But who wins, when we both feel broken inside?
We both tap out simultaneously
And make wishes on the perfect alignment of time that words said could be unsaid
Even after the fight is over
Words on top of words replay in our minds
We try to bury it without effort
And everytime the blows become much harder and the aftershock much greater…
Until we realize we are fighting ourselves away from each other
Creating a distance that doesn’t belong
We look at ourselves
And for the first time…
What we’d been fighting over wasn’t worth the fight at all
So we come together