Indulging the Child Within (a satirical look at being a...)

"If you lie down with dogs

You get up with fleas!"

My old Mum always said

When I would get teased

By people around me,

So-called friends at the school

Until they'd be influenced

By those they thought cool.

So now I am grown up

An adult it seems

Those days should be long past

Mere remnants of dreams

Well, I am disappointed

To find things just as bad

Friends turning their heads

Although mates are sad

If others attack

A friend, so you say

You cannot ignore it

It won't go away

And I must tell you

When you start to itch

If you lie down with dogs

You wake up a bitch!