Permission To Give Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Permission to give,
Is a submission to admit.
And an admission to permit it done,
Is sometimes a decision...
Embraced and welcomed by some.
To have these words heard come:

'Save me!
Save me!
You have my permission to...
Stop me from the stupid things,
I do.
To you.

Save me!
Save me!
From being a bigger fool.
I've done that repeatedly.
And too often to you to prove.

I bring to you attitude.
Unexplained.
You accept when I should feel,
I could explain and not blame.

You have every reason,
To express a mood or two.
But,
What do?
Show you my back.
And...
Walk away from you.

You have got to save me!
Save me!
From being a bigger fool.
I give you my permission,
To tell me I am stupid too!

I show you cold shoulders.
But you've never left.
You stayed to accept,
My neglect and disrespect.

My childish ways,
Affected our relationship.
You were more the adult.
And I was too foolish,
To notice it.'

Permission to give,
Is sometimes a decision made...
To have another hear these words,
Heard...
'Save me!
Save me!
From being a bigger fool.
I've done that repeatedly.
And too often to you to prove.'