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What Good is Sorry

February 12, 2024
By FlNCH PLATINUM, Scituate, Massachusetts
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What good is a sorry spoken through gritted teeth

A sorry bitten by sarcasm

A sorry spat with venom

A sorry twisted in it’s meaning

A sorry not meant

A sorry spoken with pity not wanted

A sorry filled with mocking

What good are the treasured words when they’re thrown about like leaves in the wind

What does it matter when every other sentence you speak is an apology 

What value does it hold

What meaning?

Not much, not anymore. And i know that when a liar can apologize with no depth in the words

That’s when things have gone wrong.

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The author's comments:

is there any meaning behind something people say all the time? does it not just turn into another overused phrase?

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