Stealing Praise Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

When is the best time,
To eliminate associating with those...
Who have given others the impression,
Something you have given to them for years...
Has been deserving?

Do it when they begin to tell others,
With convincing arrogance...
They've done the best they could,
To accomodate 'your' wishes.

'Excuse me?
Say What? '

Say it again...
To let the belief of it sink in.

'Excuse me?
Say What? '

Eliminate your associations with people like this,
And others will begin to plainly see...
Just 'who' has been accomodating 'whom'.
And just who has been stealing praise,
In ways they have claimed to have been justified.