08-21-2019, 03:36 PM
He exhales.
He is not an immovable force.
He has never considered himself an especially patient man.
But her anger comes spitting out of her hot and fast and mean -
and he does not react.
He does not rise up to greet her. He doesn’t not gnash his teeth and flare his nostrils. He sighs a patient kind of sound. Or perhaps it is defeat. Some kind of bitter resignation as he shakes his head.
“That’s not what I meant,” he says, the tone even.
He knows that the well of his patience is shallow, that if she pushes him hard enough he will snap. If only because he has never taken kindly to being misunderstood.
“I wasn’t sure if you did and I felt it important that you know that I don’t.”
Perhaps he is digging himself a deeper hole. Maybe he should have stopped himself before he’d even begun. He has never been known for his eloquence, his ability to concisely say whatever’s is on his mind. And now, this. As if he needed further proof.
He is not an immovable force.
He has never considered himself an especially patient man.
But her anger comes spitting out of her hot and fast and mean -
and he does not react.
He does not rise up to greet her. He doesn’t not gnash his teeth and flare his nostrils. He sighs a patient kind of sound. Or perhaps it is defeat. Some kind of bitter resignation as he shakes his head.
“That’s not what I meant,” he says, the tone even.
He knows that the well of his patience is shallow, that if she pushes him hard enough he will snap. If only because he has never taken kindly to being misunderstood.
“I wasn’t sure if you did and I felt it important that you know that I don’t.”
Perhaps he is digging himself a deeper hole. Maybe he should have stopped himself before he’d even begun. He has never been known for his eloquence, his ability to concisely say whatever’s is on his mind. And now, this. As if he needed further proof.