Fair Faces

We're a pair, we two

You:

Incite arguments with each complaint, criticism, and carefully crafted concern

Snap and snarl at incompetence

Explode with no thought to consequence

Harp upon the little things that matter naught to the world at large

whereas

I:

Patiently listen through prattling, preening, and politely pathetic pedantry,

Babble and bob through society

Smile with no thought of impiety

Ignore the world at large that means so very little to the inner me

and yet...

When people invite us out, they avoid you

Not realizing that you are far kinder

Than the mask they see on me

But I will not go anywhere

without your honesty

anchoring me down.

Because it shows me who the true fools are

When they turn away from your truth

To the comfort of my trained lies

And should you ever feel weary of

them

Remember that you are truly the fairest of

us