Read the Whole Note

You underline the angry sentence
Skip the bit where I was scared
Tell your friends the loudest version
Like the rest was never there
I can hear myself get smaller
Every time you read it out

Read the whole note
Not the line you like the least
There are coffee rings and sorrys
There is more to me than this

I can own the part that's ugly
I can say I got it wrong
But you keep the little clipping
From a letter three pages long
Now I'm sitting at your table
Asking you to let me talk

Read the whole note
Not the line you like the least
There are coffee rings and sorrys
There is more to me than this

I was shouting for a hearing
You were waiting for a flaw
I don't need to win this argument
I need you to read it all

Read the whole note
Not the line you like the least
There are coffee rings and sorrys
There is more to me than this

Read the whole note
Then tell me what you heard