Assertive statements

Assertive statements can be powerful or dangerous even. As a matter of fact, we need to take care when making them. There is no way to go back. Also, consider the affect we have both on ourselves as well as others.

Assertive Statements

Ben Franklin knew the risk of assertive statements

Dogmatic assertions come back to bite

What we think today will need revisions tomorrow

And we can’t un-ring the bell

Retractions that we make tomorrow

Are null and void as we try

To remove our foot from our mouth

If God be willing and the creek don’t rise

Too many innuendos and personal beliefs

Color what we think at this moment

And still other ones lurk in the shadows

To make us regret what we said today

Better that we temper our statements

With soft words that do a better job

Of expressing what we want to say

And hope the listener’s ear does not become assaulted

Lest it be closed

When the bell rings

And is not heard