Hard Lesson

Rise and Write day 31 is to write about feeling angry. What are the sensations in the body? What’s happening with the thoughts? Write a scene when your character feels angry. Do they want to punch someone? Will they?

Hard Lesson

The resentment boiled in her head.

Nothing could cool the heat building, 

rising like steam

ready to escape like a bubbling tea kettle.

She said she wouldn't ever get this angry again.

Yet, when saw her words, written verbatim,

but credited to another, 

her fists and mouth clenched.

Once again her work was stolen,

the rewards bypassing her skills.

Her talent it appears, 

is to propel anothers career.

"She will be a mentor,"

she was told when rejected for promotion.

"Learn from her."

She was learning alright.

She had learned that rules  don't apply,

to the person at the top. 

Stealing intellectual property, 

considered eminent domain.  

When asked about the behavior before,

was told she would see her just rewards.

"You have knowledge and talent,

but I have the power and influence."

"Together we can do great things." 

was her bosses canned response.

But the great things to one,

meant long hours to the other.

Great things meant

all the authority to one,

all the accountability,

all the fall out to the other. 

Not this time. 

She had reached her end.

Next time, she would not be there,

to solve the problem, create the solution.

"I have no regrets in informing you,"

her resignation letter began.

"that effective this minute,

my mind is my own property again."

She placed the letter in her bosses hand,

and turned silently on her heal.

Her bag on her arm, 

she boldly left the building.

Once in her car,

she felt the tea pot dull to a simmer.

The feeling of vindication,

suppressed the fear of unemployment.

Anger makes people do the irrational,

but she never felt more sane.

After all, she had skill and talent,

and would find her own power and influence.