Least said soonest mended

poem

 

Least said soonest mended

 

I am condemned to wonder why

I cannot make an apt reply.

When someone has insulted me.

I find I can quite easily

 

 but only when it is too late

Why can’t I just retaliate?

when someone has insulted me.

At the time immediately.

 

Perhaps I’m taken by surprise

 perhaps because I am too wise.

When someone has insulted me

 to take the insult seriously.

 

Though I must say in self defence

I am not quick to take offence

when some one has insulted me

I hold on to my dignity.

 

I will not be an easy mark

to be hurt by some chance remark.

Perhaps they weren’t insulting me

 but merely meant to disagree

 

I simply smile and let it go

I do not really want to know.

If they were insulting me.

It hasn’t worked as they can see.

 

20-Aug-08

 

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