Not everyone can say to be understood,

Does the matter truly rattle heartwood?

One mistake,

Innocently inapt,

a tad drift off the path along the way,

wrong-fully thwacked;

You find oneself to be branded an outcast,

a sin to which nature never intended to last,

but, here – crawling....

hands; knees bawling;

erect amplified – fully standing,

tall as any other creature equally outstanding,

well-kept soul commending,

how-ever long thou shall spat for offending,

I, too, stay...unbending.

jSh7