hard implication

It's hard to imply 
in a place your own 
that someone has done 
something incorrect. 

No matter how kind 
your guidance is, 
such feedbacks
are taken as slight,
suspect. 

The other won't 
stand to tolerate it! 
They bolt in a huff, 
leaving you unrepaid 
by the well-behaved 
person you'd hoped 
to redeem.

They take
themselves off
someplace else. No
gain. It is what it
is, it seems. 

Or worse yet, pain.

Rebuked and chastised
by your velvet-shod rod
wielded firm but soft,
gently bludgeon the odd, 
the wrong, the "off" - in
constructive ways!   

- so-called, so-hoped -

they declare open war! 
It's just one of those days.
Or revolting defiance! And
then what to do? It's hard 

to imply
anyone's made
mistake 

In the place of your own
that you welcomed them in 
to take. Well? 

What's the alternative, then? 

Let all these fools, miscreants 
and sweet peeps run amok 
being how they like, not like

you like - when it would be 
so easy?! But

it's not,
though. 

It's not. 

It's hard.