I am

the pitch-perfect persona

of avoidance

and disillusionment

I am not omitting

Denial

in error.

I am acutely aware

of how fucked up

you have been.

My petition on excuses

for bad behavior

has been echoing on

rebound throughout the whole of

this Life.

No blame

No blame

despite this frisson of pain,

for the reasons

justify the rage

No blame

for we are all circumstantial victims

No blame

I can nail to the source

of your shame

No blame

pleads the heart (mine,

yours?)

that resides so resolutely,

Impossibly

beating and bleeding

and continuing

so annoyingly...

R. Padilla