Instigate
Each footstep misplaced marching towards
Unknown and unnecessary conflict
Enraging others whose business ought to be avoided.
Respond
To emotions drawn like shining silver swords
Hearts burn with clouded eyes and external influence
Having been wrought with a touchy subject too fragile to bear.
Conflict
With all the natures of human interaction
For only one churns from the guts of a conscious mind so vividly
Like a great flower spewing forth its seeds to infect the ground.
Still
Painful memories and guilts drive on in lonely space
Cold days sweep thoughts around and jumble to confuse
Yet no snow coats the barrier driven, the unfreezing river
Apologize
When the white stuff arrives in heaves and protects the ground
Hooded jackets fluffed with down feathers place distance between
Words flow again remorseful with Buddhist images floating above unseen