Why Do You Curse My Children

Why do you curse me now? 
You smeared me with rotten words
You spoke with your mouth
That may all my children be like me
How could you wish me that? 
Why this bitterness now? 
Why, surely, all the children?
To be like me
This useless! 

To be like me
Why do you condemn
My innocent children
To such a life? A stained life
Never, Never, Never
You must eat those evil words
You have polluted my future
My children a treasure to me
They should not be like me
Try someone else 

Who?
Who on earth
Who on earth would want
To be anything close to me?
Unkind, unreasonable, uncouth
A complete waste of space
A bulletproof idiot

I will not
I will not sit
I will not sit back
And watch you finish
My whole generation.
Why me? While like me? 
A resolute reprobate
Why not you? or even 
And other eco-friendly people
Roaming this earth

Apologize.
Apologize, I swear
Apologize before I unleash
The worst of me
Stop your curses.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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January 28, 2023 at 9:18 PM
A dog barks. It is our choice to remain calm or get agitated.
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January 30, 2023 at 1:38 AM
Thank you Unseeking Seeker. I also like the paradox in your name
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