He Expected the Worst In Everyone
He had a perpetual angry sneer
A lip that curled and an attitude that said
Back off
Expressed dissatisfaction with you
before you reached his eye level
you could feel his disgust
He expected the worst in everyone
Substandard treatment, racism, sexism,
and all the other isms
He had been taught by the best
that the world is horrible and
people are con-artists
it served him well in his quest
to live down to the failure
his mother always said he would be
His grandmother tried to build him up
and love him, but she died when he
was a mere babe
So he lived down the the expectations
of a mother who had always expected the
worst, seeing racism and sexism in everyone
Until she was old, then she say
ageism and spoke to him in even worst ways
treating him like the dog she had always told him
he was
It was despicable to see.
His angels were horrified
But they could not undo the damage
of a sad and angry mother
who never wanted a child in the first place.
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2020
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