Indignities We Bear

He was up all night

Big project due

Promotion on the line

Performance review

Boss takes a look

Tosses it aside

Says “I’m not impressed

With what you provide”

She cooked and cleaned

Turned house into a home

Awaited his return

Spent all day alone

Barely gives a nod

As he grabs himself a beer

It’s like he hasn’t noticed her

In all their married years

CHORUS

It’s just one of those little indignities we bear

Building up on the inside, but the outside only stares

In commission or carelessness we chip away at pride

Hammering at the weak point saving face, for now, denied

Hand-me-down resentment makes monsters of us all

Spewing clouds of bitterness beyond an angry wall

Steadfastly denied

Impropriety

They said this man of God

Was one you could believe

Community aghast

Papers revealed

Swindling the church

While the faithful kneeled

CHORUS

It’s not that people need a medal all the time

Recognition of their efforts usually does fine

Tempered words and actions seen through another’s eyes

Always proves the adage that the honey draws more flies

We share what we should keep

Harming when we speak

Inflict disdain without a care

Dish out such raw contempt

What law can prevent

The un-civility we bare

CHORUS