_I’m sorry; last night, for the call._

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You’re SORRY?!! You had no right at all!

To stab me where I hurt the most,

To make me watch while you have a toast

“_To all my children, who I love so much_”

So much that I flinch at your touch?

Is that what you call love? Call care?

Yeah, you love them so much you call one of them a bear.

A grizzly bear, too, though he’s going into 6th grade.

Tell me, what would you do if I made

Holes in the walls of our house, w/ my foot?

Screamed at the top of my lungs till I ran out of air

Hurt everyone w/out giving a care?

I may be his senior, by six years; nonetheless

You say I’m let off easy, but I feel no rest

This pain that’s been ingrained in me from the start

My fight or flight reason, my first true response

I was broken down young, learned no boundaries

I learned to fight back; what can’t you see?

So tell me what I didn’t do

Tell me what I mean to you

You say you care, but in the end, words mean nothing

If you can’t do anything to help stop the suffering

So while I’m a rock-solid foundation, I can stand

You built a castle on a mountain made of sand.