Tongues

If you really knew how I felt

You wouldn't need to be here asking

Those questions;

Those irritating questions, moving in metaphors,

Speaking in tongues.

Your gunboat diplomacy.

You accuse me of heresy, of being irreverent.

My opinions irrelevant when I smile at your smiles,

When you're speaking in tongues.

As we move to a stalemate

You say a contract's a contract,

And this is nonnegotiable.

I question your morality; you question my reality.

You're speaking in tongues.

We are speaking in tongues.

Am I deaf because I cannot comprehend?

Though I try, I just cannot understand.

Your entrenched opinions,

On the border of arrogance,

Dug in against the compromise.

A position indefensible; your actions illogical.

You're speaking in tongues.

You swear contradictions.

Your tedious monologues, wielding authority,

Demanding subservience, demanding

I make your sense.

Demanding speaking in tongues.