I said I'd be culpable
For ruining your evening
Bemoaning my multiple
Bites, instead I'd be leaving.

Rather than to aggravate
You, I went to get relief 
From a cream to acclimate.
Then my mistake was belief.

I thought I could reappear
And share the backyard again.
I was acting cavalier,
Yet the moment would descend.

I truly am gullible;
They bit me and you, enraged,
Stormed off as I, the un-sage,
I said I'd be culpable.