If I called you a knuckle dragger, that'll be too extreme because I respect you,
If I said you are a shoulder to lean on, I'll be hurting myself by the lie I uttered,
You aren't an ignoramus, you promoted quality education,
But what you didn't know how to do quite well,
Was to listen to the whispers and watch out for the signs,
They say experience is the best teacher,
What is the evident outcome aside paranoia,
I saw salt but the owner made me call it sugar,
All in the name of protection, yielded by fear,
Maybe I wasn't really stubborn,
Maybe it's just you who refused to understand,
The 1 pound pup may attack the wolf pack that bred it,
That I'll never do because I choose to turn a blind eye to all I called your culpabilities,
Yes I can't tell to your face how selfish you sound some of the time,
And how so extravagant, sometimes I thought you unwise,
For all the time I stood silent, I let you spit in my face,
I pitied you because you had a health to maintain,
Though I had too many things to say,
I'll rather not say, perhaps I chose not to,
I've been black, bottling up things inside,
Good thing I knew how to fade into a cheerful yellow,
You hardly ever approved, so I never saw a need to persevere,
If it was sport, dance, drama, not involving books or study,
Do me you a favour, let's forget it,
Maybe it's a phase everyone faced,
You set the rules of the game, a duty we accepted,
What I couldn't decipher was why you still wanted to play the game,
On our behalf yet I don't remember us asking that favour,
Yes I love you and you love me,
But I know surely one day, you'll see my handwriting written on the wall.