"Your Tone is Not Appreciated" Inspired by Tress of the Emerald Sea:

Your Tone is Not Appreciated

You asked me why I left my home

and everything I’ve ever known:

to save him.

You got that pity-look in your eyes

and packaged it as concern.

You think I’m dumb

to risk my life and a predictable future

for following my heart and wanting our love,

for believing that he meant what he said,

for choosing the future we could have

if we both make it home alive.

The choices I have made

were not foolhardy nor blind.

I don’t know what I’m doing,

but I’m figuring it out.

And, if in going to save him

I find out what it means to live and to die,

then so be it.