Arrogance becomes you.
Your eyes scan the air
sitting in your chair
nose to the air.
How many years did you
spend learning
to become arrogant -
Was it nature's gift or
a learned practice?
I feel great pain in my head.
My words increase the pain.
Is the pain in my head
just in my head?
Where does it come from?
Perhaps a secret masochist desire.
You have that look in your eyes,
your thoughts cease in mid-stream.
Your mind has concluded.
The door slams shut.
The disbelief that
shrouds your face is
the drug you choose to
worsen my pain.
Why? Why me? I scream.
Make it stop! This barbed wire
inside my skull, tightening
around my brainthis pain
is just in my head!?
Paula Bader, 1999
