Muffled

I can hear them yelling at each other. It began as a muffled cry, it was soft at first. Every second it gets worse, the screams become shrieks, from anguished, to violent, to hysterical. On it goes, back and forth. They are accusing each other; their voices are pointing fingers and blame. They do this all the time. Sometime I don’t think people are even angry at each other. We are really yelling at ourselves, yelling at this whole god forsaken mess. Some people are perpetually on the edge, just itching to raise a voice, swing arms and get attention. Some people seem as though they just couldn’t bear to live without a fight. Bad feelings are better than no feeling at all, I guess.