So Crotchety behind Her Crocheting
Does this seem troubling to you? All grans aren’t tiresome, it’s true,
But this old lady nurses ire as if she kept eternal fire
Cooking for gleeful roasting of all who would dare to fall in love,
To be successful, find delight in anything, morning to night,
That is not hers, and hers alone; she glowers as if from the throne
Of Empire, threatening with doom all who would dare challenge the gloom
With which she paints her own worldview; I find her hideous, don’t you?
The only worse soul, I should think, would be my own, if I would sink
To wishing others ill because they weren’t as awful as I was.
Art-Colored Glasses 
I see you’ve met my former Mother-In-Law… 😉
Ohhhh, the beauty of that word: *former*. 😛 WAHOO! 😀
Ooh Im a gran now; I hope I dont turn into one like this!! 😄 x
You? Not in a million years. 😀
xoxo!
That last line….is sooo true of a lifetime of negativity or god help me of growing old. People who want to drag others down or even worse…a narcissist. Great drawing…scary post!
I’m hoping I manage to exorcise such emotional-vampire horrors before they ever happen to me by putting them out to burn in the daylight. 😀
Reminds me of an aunt of mine – God rest her soul. And your two last lines are the moral of her story. Wonderful post again, Kathryn! XO
It kind of amazes me that curmudgeons so seldom seem to realize that they have the power to be happier just by being nicer!!! Sounds like that aunt of yours has a better shot at happiness where she is now than she did in life. 😉
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