Funny how, isn’t it now

How time passes so slowly

You’d think you didn’t know me

But, there it is somehow

Apologies given entirely tardy

Words said that tend to scar me

I need to breathe to live

But your acts are hard to forgive

Oh, it was all a joke you say

Well, go away, I don’t play

And there is consequence

Even if quietly spoken

And perhaps lacking in impotence

Such is the way of respect broken