being the bigger person

You should pipe down and suck
it up so you don't get smooshed
or look like the total asshole to
people who don't know the whole
score. 

You should stand back shut up,
put on implacable face like 
the stoic you ain't. But they 
don't know that do they? 

It's a power of its own 

You should seize it as 
your own. Being
the bigger person
is easy. 
Being the bigger person 
is slow.
Just keep sucking 
in. You grow
from within from
all of your worst, that they'll
never know. It's a power
of yours how you keep it
from them. In all of your
worst
so seething sick
and molten slag, to burst
and gag in choking down.
To frozen cold in stretch  
expand to crack, but won't.
It never can. The pressure
builds, but you just grow.
You're so big now

it doesn't show.