Advice For the Pain Inflictors

Broken battered angry deranged parents Try to break their children at an early age So they will not be alone in their misery It works with some, however, with others It completely backfires. They take their pain and shake it into poetry, and art. They write it into songs and musicals that become world-renown They ease their sad experiences into ways to help others Think Oprah, Shirley Temple, Maya Angelou, Tyler Perry and Ellen DGeneres Children who shine the brightest as adults were often the ones Who were put down, tromped on, slapped, whipped and belted when they were children. Our most proficient writers, authors, poets, singers, dancers, and actresses The ones whom we all look up to, were often put down as children. Listen, you broken battered angry deranged parents Beware, your pain-inflicting will not work. Worse, when they become rich and famous, They may wipe their shoes of you And not help you at all in your old age.