Unruly Tongue

Unruly tongue

Always ready

To hurt someone

Unruly tongue

Careless and dumb

Deadly with devilish venom

Striking suddenly to numb

Subtle and belittling it comes

To steal your life and fun

Throw you into a tailspin

An emotional demise within

The unruly tongue tantalizes

Seeks to get and self-actualizes

Others it speedily despises

As it beguiles and disguises

Itself in tasty tender verbiage

Heartless beneath as garbage

Decaying and corrupting

Infesting and polluting

Portraying and purporting

Purity distorting and diluting

The unruly tongue likes refuting

Any confrontation that is hurting

Seeking to harness and rule

Unruly tongues think they're cool

Yet their words stink like a stool

Though they perch on a pedestal

Proud as a peacock impenetrable

Identify their errors, they're unable

Mentally and emotionally unstable

Hurt people consistently hurt people

Within they're bruised and feeble

Living in a dreadful depth of denial

By the dearth of honesty they spiral

Their internal infection worse than viral

Enslaved to their insecurity and instability

They quickly place the focus outwardly

Dissecting, dismantling, and dominating others

It doesn't matter if they're sisters and brothers

If the unruly tongue had its own druthers

It would continue to be foul and smother

Its own beloved father and mother

Because deep within there is poison

Rage and bitterness like a sour lemon

They need a new outlook and horizon

Their perspective and perception

Needs an alteration and transformation

Their restless soul needs to be whole

Improving their manners is the goal

In a school of etiquette they must enroll.