Is it any wonder
When people come to see
him about only one thing
and never bother to look
beyond
the glasses
at the human isolated
there behind
that he grows to resent you
hate you
and eventually he shows
you the sharp side
of his otherwise gentle tongue
because you treat him like his charge
© 2003 Matthew Steven
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