Not: I am sorry you feel that way.
Not: I am sorry, but.
Not: I am sorry, said quickly, in the doorway,
with the keys already in the hand.
Sit down. Say the thing you did.
Say it in the active voice, with your name in front of it.
Do not explain. Explaining is a smaller
and more comfortable room and you may not go in.
Then stop talking. Then let it be their turn.
That silence is the apology.
The words were only how you got there.
This a fake test poem created by First Verse - it will be deleted at launch
