Before Impulse Reacts...

Don't you just hate it when you're misunderstood and the 'grapevine' bears strange fruit:)!

If it's too complicated to unravel and the only wounded party is Pride 

all we can do is forgive, love and learn, right ?

Yes, instead of venting let's just 'sh-h-h!'

Do not give ought to thought unkind

That never sires good

First impulse is often truth blind

To deed misunderstood

Better then, to not inflict pain

By casting spite’s harsh stone

Our hearts, so deceitful and vain

Are make-a-mistake prone

Then, when we are tempted to speak

Without the facts on deck

Pray that we turn the other cheek

And hold our tongues in check

For in life’s race we all need grace

This human brotherhood

Inclined to err must sometimes face

Being misunderstood

Are any of us oh, so grand

That we do all we should?

Kinder to lend a gentle hand

To deeds misunderstood

Better then to communicate

And not decide the facts

But rather try to mediate

Before impulse reacts

© Janet Martin