Beyond Repair

Prompt for Totally Optional Prompts is " In the Ear"
Things that we hear!

Beyond Repair

I hear quiet truths

Behind complaints.

Sorrow behind voices

Agonizing choices.

I hear imminent reprisal

Stoked by humiliation,

Fostered by insinuation.

I hear silent tears

Burning within.

Mustering angst

Fury, contempt,

Trapping compassion

In folds of indignation.

I hear laughter

Staving off scorn.

I hear fear

Buried in judgment

Competition, castigation.

I hear no resolution

Restitution or absolution.

I hear happiness

frittering on the fringes,

Cleaving to hope,

Waiting for peace.