Ingratitude

INGRATITUDE How could you give me such extreme distress While my care for you has always been so strong When you erred in thinking you were a success Did I not show you, where you were going wrong When you spent such toil on your pathetic writing I revealed how you were wasting all your time I put you right and helped you with my chiding To get you straight and back again in line The expression of ideas you took delight in And wilfully disputed truth in mine Why couldn't you conform and stop the fighting Your rebelliousness it really was a crime You would still be in religious cult induction If I hadn't made a plan for your salvation Though you fought and screamed that it was an abduction For your sake we had to use incarceration With your protests diagnosed as bipolarity A psychiatrist said psych-medicine would be kind Then a good dose of electroconvulsive therapy Brought you to a more amenable frame of mind And yet you now show such a lack of gratitude All my caring seems to be misunderstood And I find it hard to understand your attitude Since I've always done what's purely for your good