Balance beam

I'm walking on a balance beam

I knew this would happen.

We all work so hard for this

You do too

We try to include everything

Every article

Every story

We can't

We have page limits.

It's impossible to make everyone happy.

And I get that it's frustrating

And I am trying so hard to get you in there

I talked to him about it

We just didn't have time

You can say it's all excuses

I'm not guilty

Because I did my best to make everyone feel good.

And that's all that I can do,

And I know it's annoying,

And it does suck.

You also have to understand

That parts will be cut.

That's part of how the newspaper works.

That's what you signed up for

If you don't like it

Fine.

You don't have to stay.

But seriously

Stop trying to make me feel bad.

I can't afford to and so I don't.

I am

Strictly

Functional.

Keep venting

Fine

Eventually I'll stop responding

I have to make my side heard.

I'm so sorry

To disappoint.

QueenBee

VT

14 years old

More by QueenBee

  • Love language

    Duet

    starting together ending together

    weaving around each other's sound

    adapting tuning

    instinctively fitting into the tone

    the way we want to do this

    the contrast

    played so perfectly

  • The boys in my class

    The agony of the human race

    simple creatures

    snickering at my poetry 

    banging their fists against their heads

    stalling work

    reading mushy parts of books they pretend not to enjoy

    saying stupid things

  • Sleigh ride

    Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring tingle tingling too

    F F F F F G F-D Bb C D C-A G F-

    imitating the human voice with instruments

    percussion back there repeatedly hitting the sleigh bells