Imagine if you are ten years old
Excited with eyes all seeing
You see something secret happening
Try silence with all your being.
Well on that walk to the swimming baths
With teacher and class from school
All chatty with the teacher up front
Just to show you're nobodys' fool
Or was I, what was I thinking?
Clearly nothing as I continued to relay
A fight between teacher and brother
Pricked ears hearing the full display.
He called you a B#$%h I said proudly
As the teachers face went puce
The line of students halted crashingly
As my story ran out of juice.
A lesson learnt that fateful day
Don't listen to others anger
And certainly don't repeat it to them
As you will only be met with rancour.
Truth vs indiscretion? A hard distinction to learn when young
Made me smile.
Very entertaining, having been on both sides of that fence.