Envy

Your eyes glower devoid of fluster

I see your greed enclosed within your mind

All and sundry recognize your thoughts

prior to your malicious comments

and cutting deception

Your erratic temperament familiar

is obscured, and lingers

for the right time to strike  

down to the sewer

of unjustified gossip

Achievements of others

delves under your skin

with such devious intent  

 It pilfers the contentment you long to unearth

Incarcerated in a cage of steel   

you shove people away

with a critical eye    

and unpleasant drollness

Perturbing thoughts about all others

keeps you in a place of obscurity

unable to change and develop

into a civilized upright individual

Your liberty, just an intangible dream