eleven

^“But now you must get rid of all such things—anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth.”  Colossians 3:8

but

the bitterness tastes

so sweet,

the arrows of anger

pierce so deeply,

the foul-letter words

roll so trippingly

off the tongue, how

can you ask me

to just toss them

in the landfill,

rather

than recycling them

© 2020 Thom M. Shuman