Hit Me

Hit me with your best shot

         this is not my first rodeo

you might think

                you can out maneuver me

      I've dealt with far superior

who can run rampant around you,

I only give as good as I get....

so, fire away...

     I've ammunition packed

           from now til doomsday

it's  those exactly like you

             who've clinched the deal

i used to run the other way,

in my younger days, now I take a stand

         this old soul,

        can take much offense and heat

if you don't wanna play with fire 

    stop playing these games

           there's hardly satisfaction 

when you diss me to the hilt

  & then change up the rules

      there's only one in this game

you get as good as you give, 

              there IS no other way

Author's Note

Reviews

[kublakhan27]

I try very hard to not let the subject matter of a poem influence how I read and review it, but it's impossible for me to simply comment on the poem in this case. When I was younger, I would have killed for some of the bravery I have now. Nowadays, forget the bravery, I would just kill some of the people I went to school with. School was a very fearsome place for me, they all had a hand in killing my childhood...anyways I better stop since this is the first thing I've read today and I don't want to risk being bitter all day by thinking about this. It's in my library, I think that says it all :)

[Frieda P]

When we know better, we do better Benji, you probably didn't realize back then, all these bullies are mostly afraid of their own shadow and have deep rooted insecurities of their own. Thanks my dear. :-)

[kublakhan27]

That is indeed something I have learned over the years. Anytime Mrs.R :)

[Rita L. Sev]

"Not my first rodeo... I've dealt with far superior..." Unfortunately, not the last either; the price we pay for interacting with the human race. This is a held-held-high poem, Frieda - as it should be!

[Frieda P]

Ah yes, always a price to pay...thanks so much Rita!

[Rita L. Sev]

But it occurs to me that there are rewards to dealing with people as well... the best we can do is embrace with one hand and push away with the other...

[Frieda P]

Ha exactly, that's why I'm so confuzzeled.... ;-)

[Sami Khalil]

Wow. That was powerful and straightforward with no ambiguity. I felt a lady cowgirl loaded with pistols in the wild west of life. So many people want to take advantage , prey on the innocent , smear our good name and so forth...A splendid poem...:)

[Frieda P]

Haha just call me Annie Oakley Sami ;-) Thanks so much for this splendid review.

[Sami Khalil]

OK. You are welcome...:)