One massive step

Today I take a massive step
Toward rehabilitation
When I'm face to face with Someone
With ideas above their station

Someone who's attitude and actions
Made me resign a role I held
Someone who gave me a mouthful,
Challenged the images I held

Not only of him
Who previously I never would have thought,
Could behave this way
But I was wrong, a lesson I was tought.

But also those about myself
As a kind and caring man
Listen to him and you'd have thought
I was hitler or sadam

I've suffered as a result of this
Attack made by a friend
Being threatened by someone like that
Is a bridge that's hard to mend

Not that any attempt has ever
Or ever will be made
To apologise for the outburst
Or the seed of doubt it laid

And not forgetting all the kids
As this happened, stood there
I'm glad that I had self control
And did not lay my soul bare

And tell him how I really felt
The disgust and anger I had
But 13 kids in my charge came first
So I secretly went mad.

Breathed in and out, counted to ten
And then did it again
I needed to just calm myself
Engage my mouth after my brain

A few days later i was still annoyed
And unable to accept
That I'd deserved this treatment and
so to the side I stepped

Let someone else stand up and
Take that abuse if it comes
My life is crazy enough without
Lunatic dads and mums.

And for the first time in many months
Tonight ill sit in a meeting
With the man who ruined everything
Who made my job so very fleeting

Before I walk in the room
Deep breath and count to ten
And then ill hold my head up and
Be me, be strong again

Ill not let anyone again
achieve what he did that day
I'm stronger now, I'm a bigger man
I'm very proud to say