Disasters strike when they're least expected. Forget the bigger ones, but every time we fail, are mocked, cursed or casted off, it's a disaster. These Lilliputian disasters contribute to our sapience. That said, below lies one such episode.

one bitter pill

Whoosh! As the wind of sudden outrage went past me

Thud! In a flash, I went down on my knee

Trying real hard to be able to understand

While staring down at the phone in my hand

Beep! What did just happen here?

Plop! So there went my first tear

And my head kept pounding with rage

Every second seeming to be an age

Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock! Who? Who was it?

Shaking all over, I couldn’t sleep, walk or just sit

Hush! All I could hear was the cicadas sing

And there I was, giving my head a wring

So somebody just got all stoned and boozed up

Hanging in there only to pour the tirade in my cup

Well, he did bark out loud proving his vanity

Putting a big question on his air and sanity

But I had my own people to stick up for me

Who’d just roar and he’d forget how to pee

The sun rose, and I had figured it out

The same old school-devil he was, no doubt

Well, it was wee tough to swallow

That he was still such a wretch and hollow

Never could survive with all the “thumbs-down”

“The Black Sheep” contest? He’d have won the crown

It was my turn, I figured, to end his bliss

Tipping him with no way to wriggle out of this
I wasn’t really calculating how to beat him up to death

But I surely wanted him to know how good was my Math

That if he could only just learn to stay away from me

I’d see to it that he’s bailed out of this for free
And that if he again lurks around somewhere near

He’d then go ‘boohoo’ and nobody would hear

The ‘sorry’ he gave me doesn’t mean a thing

I’m better off without it, ding dong ding

Forgotten all about the episode, have I?

Wouldn’t say nope, because that’d be a lie

But I sure now know what needs to be done

Gulping it down the throat such that there remains none
Oh my! I remember taking one bitter pill

And how I hated the thing and I always will.