Anger Perpetuates Anger

''ANGER PERPETUATES ANGER'' SHE CAN'T EVER REMEMBER, A TIME WITHOUT HEARING HER MOM SAY THAT MEN ARE NO GOOD HOW THEY ONLY WANT SEX, AND TO GET IT, THEY PLAY WITH YOUR HEAD "GIRL, DON'T FALL FOR NO MAN", MOM SAID POINTING HER FINGER A BITTERNESS HEARD IN HER VOICE CHOOSE A MAN WITH SOME MONEY, OR POWER, TO LAY WITH INSTEAD WITH THIS DEEPLY INGRAINED IN HER SPIRIT SHE CLOSED PATHWAYS THAT LED TO HER HEART ON HER MOMMA'S INSISTENT ADVICE, ALL HER ACTIONS WERE DRAWN SHE PASSED OVER ALL MEN WHO MIGHT LOVE HER FOR NO VALUE IN LOVE, WAS SHE TAUGHT BUT THREE CHILDREN LATER, THE MEN WITH THE MONEY, WERE GONE HER CHILDREN ALL HAD DIFFERENT DADDIES WHO HAD NO LOVE FOR THEM OR FOR HER SHE HAD CHOSEN THESE MEN CAUSE HER MOMMA, HAD TOLD HER SHE SHOULD BUT SHE NOW FACED THE COLD CONTRADICTION THAT SHE FOUND IN HER MOMMA'S ADVICE HER LIFE DID NOT TURN OUT THE WAY, THAT HER MOM SAID IT WOULD SO THEN THERE BECAME AN AWARENESS OF HER MOM'S PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW THERE WAS PAIN AND FRUSTRATION AND ANGER, FROM CHOICES MOM MADE FOR HER MOM WHO HAD MADE THESE BAD CHOICES PASSED THE BLAME ON THE MEN, IN HER LIFE THE MEN, THAT GRANDMOM SAID CHOOSE, AND POOR MOMMA HAD PAID YOU SEE ANGER "PERPETUATES" ANGER LIKE A CANCER, IT GROWS AND IT SPREADS IT WAS PASSED DOWN FROM GRANDMOM TO MOMMA, THEN MOMMA TO DAUGHTER FROM GRANDMOM TO GRANDCHILD THIS ANGER WAS PASSED 'CAUSE NO ONE THOUGHT, TO BREAK THIS CHAIN AND THE HOPE OF WHAT "MIGHT'VE BEEN", SWALLOWED, LIKE BITTERSWEET WATER.