There was no ring
Just a promise
Til retirement do us part
Or so we thought.
…
We were barely together
You took me for granted.
I felt entitled
Drifting and shifting
From close to strained – a part to apart.
…
We both saw it.
Said nothing.
Time passed.
…
On the yearly anonymous survey
I let you have it
Conveyed in numbers transformed into graphs
I declared myself disengaged
As you felt dismayed.
….
I don’t want it this way
Neither do you
Lets stop being so anonymous
No more surveys
No more whispered grumbling
Engage is to really connect
Not through check boxes and 4 color graphs
that put my work into a low functioning group of 79%.
…
Let’s cast aside the blame
Call me by my name.
We can work this out
We can work this
WE CAN WORK!
This definitely hit home. Thank you for posting it.