A Person In Charge Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Puzzles of people who want total control over
everything, manifest themselves in ungrateful,
uncaring ways.
Discriminating against those who need help most,
taking away those who desire to fulfill needs
for those in want.
Going to meetings, not letting advisory board
members decide for themselves what needs to
happen to bring about the common good.
Instead, being a tyrant - a dictator - using
limited powers to disseminate everyone, trapping
all in a sewer of their own making.
Abuse is abounding, feelings are cut short, no
one is allowed to voice their opinions or choices,
everyone in fear of retaliation.
A city of Phoenix senior center is being run like
this.