Please Shut Up

“Please Shut Up”

(Tom Entrican, 11/12/2022)

Is it ever enough to bark and to fuss

Bringing misery with plenty to spare

To throw sticks and stones as if you must

Cause discomfort to everyone there

Is there really a need to tear it all down

As if the world orbits you

And screech about like an angry clown

Thinking everyone wants your review

Must you lay waste to everyone’s peace

So that your voice is all that they hear

With diatribe that feels like hot grease

As you burn it right into their ears

Can you not see the folly of being the one

That everyone seems to avoid

For fear of the vitriol they try to outrun

A voice that spews nothing but noise

Does it make any sense that they take offense

To the mean foul things that you say

Or why everyone is building a fence

In hopes just to keep you away

Do you understand why you have no friends

All the barriers that you construct

With tongue still wagging until the world ends

They all ask; “Will you please shut up”!