– Cause and Effect –
In fear of his anger I walk away.
I walk out on him in the moments
when he needs me the most.
I try to distract myself with tedious things;
Trivial tasks that may not in that moment
seem so very important to him,
but may yet help his comfort
in more difficult days ahead.
In selfish haste I only wanted to run
from the threat of that anger,
laced so deeply into
the surface of his words.
But just like my fear,
that emotion is only temporary.
Like the tasks of my distraction,
it is a triviality,
gone in a moment when given space to dissipate.
It’s only a matter of cause and effect.
That emotion is only a part
of what makes us whole,
and I would not seek to further quantify
our precious time together,
with the casualties of my stress.