Travels through Life by Millie Jackson

ANGER WITHIN

There she lays in a pool of blood. "Please, please I didn't mean to do it. I just got so angry. She wouldn't listen, she wouldn't do what I wanted her to. I didn't mean to hurt her. I just wanted what I wanted. If she just done what I wanted her to do. I didn't mean to cause all these problems. I was just angry because I wasn't getting my way."

He will never see that he was trying to control her to make her do things his way. How does he know that his way is the right way? Or if it's what she wanted? He doesn't. Only thinking of his self and what he wants. What will make him happy. She's not to have any feelings or emotions. Just pleasing him. That's what it's all about. He will blame her for getting him upset. Never taking the blame for his actions.

The crowd looks on and wonders what happened here. They seem like nice people. To the outside world he was more polite to strangers than the one he claimed to love. He thought more of others' feelings and would listen to their feelings, but not hers. She should have been the one that was the most important to him. Now it's too late. Anger handled it for him.

Now it's out of his hands altogether. The anger didn't get him what he wanted after all. All it does is destroy lives. He can't change it now. It's too late. If he had been willing to listen to her and learn to open up and talk about it then it wouldn't have had to happen.

We can't understand another person's feelings until we give them the right to talk and to listen to one another, really listen. Listen. Be quiet and listen. Then we will know how people feel and think. Until we do that there will be more abuse and more people being depressed and more people hurt and killed.