Snow Melt

Childhood Lessons

January 11, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  What childhood lesson has always stuck with you?

Childhood's lessons
return to haunt
and reverberate
like a bully's taunt.

Which of these lessons
have stuck with me
the good,
the bad,
or the ugly?

It was the lie
that a neighbor girl told
that resulted in the spanking
I did not deserve
and the unconscious belief
that no one ever
believes me.

Why is it
I remember the lessons
that were ugly
or bad
before I remember the good?