Nobody changed their mind.
They just made it easier to hear.
In Agreement watches disagreement being quietly edited out of the room. Words soften, opinions are rephrased and awkward thoughts lose their sharper edges until everyone appears to be getting along. Nothing has necessarily been resolved. It has simply been made polite enough to pass for agreement.
Let’s not make this awkward
Let’s just agree
Voices lower at the edge
Of something slightly off-script
Opinions pause mid-sentence
Then quietly get rephrased
Pause before the honest word
Replace it with a neutral tone
No one wants to be the one
Who shifts the room alone
Who shifts the room alone
It’s not that we don’t think it through
We just prefer the air kept light
If tension enters conversation
Ease it out. Return to polite
We’re all in agreement
More or less
Keep it even
Trim the excess
Hold the middle
Stay between
Say what passes
For serene
Careful nods and measured laughs
At points we didn’t fully share
A slight adjustment in the phrasing
Just to show we’re steady there
Truth arrives with too much weight
We hold it briefly, then reduce
Better stated softer now
Nothing likely to produce
Nothing likely to produce
If every room demands a calm
Then calm is what we’ll always show
Even when the thought beneath
Would rather not go slow
We’re all in agreement
More or less
Keep it even
Trim the excess
Hold the middle
Stay between
Say what passes
For serene
There was a time
We argued well
Without the threat
Of social exile
Now the volume drops
Before it starts
We keep the peace
We keep our parts
We’re all in agreement
More or less
Keep it even
Trim the excess
Hold the middle
Stay between
Nothing said
That might convene
Let’s not make this awkward
Let’s just agree