Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

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.

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Jan Allison June 3, 2019 at 5:18 PM powerfully penned Caren, I can relate in some parts to the way I was treated as a child as I was down trodden and lived in my sister's shadow and my parents treated us so differently but I am flying high with my poetry and that is something I am proud of as doing in my own right:-) hugs jan xx Caren Krutsinger June 3, 2019 at 11:05 PM I am thrilled you have poetry, Jan, and even more thrilled that you have us, your loyal followers and admirers.