Fumbling words... (2017)

I feel I offended you
I struggle with this often --

this feeling that I offend others

I want you to know that I care
But in trying to relay that

without directly telling you

I fumble and my words come

out too bluntly

Often, I cannot retrieve from

my brain the proper words

I'd probably be better off to

say nothing

2/22/2017

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I regularly revisit posts I've written in the past, prompted by viewing my stats and discovering the posts which visitors to my blog have read. That said, the visitors may be bots or something other than human eyes. 

In December 2024, I ran across this poem (that I'd penned in 2017) while viewing one of those posts on my tossandripple blog. 

I do not recall whom it was that I felt I had offended.  

But the poem is still relevant today.

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