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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