The Yelling Tree (Family)

THE YELLING TREE (FAMILY) - Written by Carroll Bryant

 

 

Eyes of a child

An ignorant mind

I should be seen, not heard

Those were your words

 

Speak only when spoken to

Nobody did

 

You told me to be quiet

Pay attention

Who would have thought that would become my future?

 

Vagabonds of the elite

We traveled about like the wind

Like currents in the ocean

 

Friend today

Gone tomorrow

It doesn’t matter, the chatter

Everyone likes blue eyes and blonde hair

 

Even Spanish babysitters

 

My world

Isolation

Observance

Then one Christmas Eve it happened

I was blessed

I was cursed

I was chosen out of all of you

 

Jealousy is a texture that cuts soft egos

 

Why me?

 

Why not me?

 

Abandonment is not a pretty sight

Were you angry that I chose you not to be my teacher?

I knew you wouldn’t understand

You never do

You never see the truth right before your sights

Only the imagination lost that lives inside your thoughts

 

Cruelty disguised as tough love

 

Tough what?

The world is my oyster

The world is my oyster?

Why limit yourself like that?

The universe is my pearl

 

The universe is my pearl!

 

You served your purpose

For that I am grateful

Only now can you see what your purpose was

Now you sit on the sidelines and watch me play my game

I am the star

I am the universe

 

Envy is a food best regurgitated

 

Choke on it

 

And love looms on the horizon of our acceptance

The acceptance of the knowledge that every path leads to a home

Or the homeless

 

My path led me to me

How iconic is that?

 

You now sit there before the lighted screen

A high definition view for a low definition you

A fan of the dreamer and his dreams you could not be

A fan of reality now

 

Money is your source of success

You still haven’t learned a damn thing

My success is worth more than your burnable paper

My success is my self acknowledgement

My self to be true

 

Value is a friend who continually changes its mind

Unless that value is your own self worth

And that self worth is confidence and love

Then value may have a purpose

 

Watch as everything I warned you about comes full circle

Watch as everything you denied comes to past

Watch as everything you thought I wasn’t proves you wrong

 

Do you love me now?

 

Do you love me now!!!