Altitude Adjustment


Don’t you dare talk down to me
With your delusions of grandiosity.
Your haughty air of pomposity,
Droning, negative, monotony.

No longer can you manipulate,
Embarrass, degrade or humiliate.
Ridicule, or scornfully negate
The value of feelings we communicate

Erudite though you strive to appear,
You impress absolutely not one person here.
Your ego serves merely to interfere
With the values of friendship we hold dear.

Now, that being said, let me hasten to add,
If you alter your “altitude” , we will be glad
To welcome you back, for it would be sad
To lose the friend we thought we had.

©Sharon Langan


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