Get My Revenge Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Feeling impressed with myself I went to take
the pill keeping my psyche from over-secretion
of adrenaline; moving in a rose-coloured dream
I took my sleeping pill instead intended for the
hour just before going to bed, oh dear –

Tonight’s activities are curtailed and tomorrow
morning at 4 o’clock I’ll be up and about - does
not matter, tomorrow within a week we shall be
in Kwa-Zulu Natal at the sea-side - both kids
coming along, both teasing me but with such

Good-natured bonhomie I can’t complain – well,
not too much, my self-esteem is going for a dive
yet at least they’re still talking to me, more than
many another parent can say; sitting here in pink
Nici already retreating in a mock display

Of shock at my being so pinkly brash – hah! – one
day I shall get my revenge, grandkids are bound to
appear - and show her the error of her ways