Ode to the Ones I've Left Behind

All I can do is laugh
broad burts of boisterous brevity
brimming with incredulity
what's that you say?
we are all individuals
with our individual minds
and our individual identities
and individual histories.

Well I've been reading your history book
over all these years now,
and either I am stuck on the same page
or you have learnt nothing
of how to handle yourself as an individual
and make those relationships that are
so central to our species
work.

I embrace my abilities to think critically
judging is for those well enough informed
to discern between lies, excuses and the
multilayered truth.
what was good then has now run its course
and has been dismantled to make way
for the things that are of use.

The benefit of you in my life
does not outweight the damage done
We all suffer trials and tribulations
And despite the individual bend
helping hands are always present
for you but not for me
and you say you were not treated fairly?

Bitch, please!