Jealousy by design

Jealousy so cruel and unkind.

Negative words produced with one aim,

Not inspiring, nor positively giving.

Designed to crush and to destroy.

Jealousy so soul destroying,

Spiteful and deliberately condemning intentions,

Not uplifting nor cheerfully given,

Designed to create misery and make sad.

Jealousy really about the giver,

A luminescent window to their being,

Not a reflection nor stigma on their victim,

Designed for their own self gratification.

Jealousy bodes no one well,

A constant surround in nastiness most vile,

Not pleasant nor celebratory,

It is so condemning by design.

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Karen Burns is 49 and lives in Coventry, England. She is a graduate at Warwick after completing a Social Studies degree. Her interests are reading, poetry, writing reviews and she has a blog all about her daughter who has an eating disorder.