Criticized For Being A Dog Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If a young hungry dog,
Is shown and known to bare its teeth...
Why would people repeatedly tease it,
With a throwing of fresh meat?
To then await decades later to say,
They were unaware a young hungry dog...
Will not admit of eating the meat.
Or licking bones left for it to treat.
As they all gather to declare themselves,
Victimized to believe they can disguise...
They laid the traps to seduce with bait.
Hoping the young dog would take it.
And the young dog did not to expect,
Years later to be criticized for being a dog.