Listen

I didn’t mean to offend 
when you were 
trying to talk to me,
I just didn’t feel the need 
to be as urgent as you 
about what you were saying,
and I had a few other things 
on my mind at the time, 
to be honest,
like how I was going to 
carve out some silence,
and if maybe I got some 
disposable earplugs 
from someone to help
me with my sensitivity to 
the earth rumbling 
and the furniture trembling 
and people belting 
so loudly at one another
you get sick and feel 
like your falling, 
that I might actually have 
a pleasant day, 
and you know what,
I did manage to procure 
some earplugs 
and they did help
make the rooms, 
maybe not a lot quieter,
since I could still hear 
everything with them in,
but quiet enough so that 
I didn’t get triggered 
as deeply or as often. 
I was able to 
constructively dissociate 
a little bit more,
which I think did wonders 
for my temperament, 
on my way out the door 
everyone seemed so warm.