Someone once said I was a little too hard to crack
someone once insinuated that I did not quite fully represent
or do enough to relax
the minds and hearts of everybody I can't quite
redact.
And excuse you kindly,
it is a fireplace, even if you can't quite grasp that it is there.
That is why, in my mind,
you have one.
Yes, you heard me,
a small mind.
It takes a very particular sort of leadership
to be this one-kind.
And I'm often accused of being found wanting
for kindness, for empathy, for people's time:
compassionately speaking,
I'm not quite sure that's what I promised you would find.
Don't worry.
On national television
I definitely absolutely know
how to cry.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Oh, thank goodness;
I was worried that the fire
was about to die.