Altitude Adjustment
Don’t you dare talk down to meWith 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