Drinking from the Poisoned Well

Fist through a wall - foot through a door
 Just another day for me to abhor
 There's a wall in my plan for you today
 There's a door with your name where it lay
 Years of hateful thoughts will get you back
 I'll be at peace soon
 You think you're punishing me by your anger
 But it's you serving the jail sentence
 Heart turned to stone suffering all alone
 Calibrating how hatred can sink the power of forgiveness
 Anger needs a place to be buried
 Anger needs a process for it's gravestone
 The time has come to speak of many things
 Not shoes and ships and sealing wax not cabbages and Kings
 But the way your raging words and actions
 Gouge a monumental chasm between us
 If I could only help you to see what I see
 As you push away the ones who love you
 Your world is closing in on you
 The once many friends become the reluctant few
 And when the few that remain choose rather to abstain
 You'll be left alone with all the pain
 And you'll ponder at length how a day turned a year
 And the years rolled along till nobody was near
 Broken before the One who understands
 That it's hard to let go of familiar land
 But you've got to leave the safe ground behind
 A better place is waiting where there's peace of mind
 Now that you've come to realize
 That chronic anger has a steep price
 Taking more than you can afford to give
 Stealing the joy that you need to live