A Refusal to Niceties

The chit-chat stops,
the small talk ceases
as tensions rise
and pressure increases.
The one-liners prior
that meant nothing
turned so quickly
into something.
They turned a simple
encounter of two
into a battle
that began to draw a few.
The refusal to niceties
and shallowness rehearsed
came to one
abruptly and unversed,
but this explosion
should have been
spotted a mile
away by all men.
The waste of time
and amount of facade
that went into the
eventual lightning rod
tore all bridges
as down they fell
and burned with people
torn and hurt like hell.