What Has Been Can Never Be Undone

The things we face all the time, just so we can continue to participate in the one thing we truly love to do everyday. And when it finally becomes too much, its really a shame.

You can lie to everyone, and then blame

       us to save your own fat a*s from punishment.

You can take your anger out on us and

       expect us to respect you and avoid frustration.

You can torment us and yell and scream 

at us and keep us from water breaks for hours.

You can suck up to the person with the

      ability to fire you, who believes you, and not us.

You can design ridiculous see-through

      naked candy corn yellow bird suits for us to wear.

You can simplify our flag work when

      we finally like it until it is stupid and redundant.

You can try your hardest to make sure

      your other Guard is better than us in every way.

You can change our ten-foot pole work

      right before we go to preform; band blames us.

You can cause band to blame Guard for

     every single one of your problems and failures.

You can make us stay late after school for

eight hours taping flags and say its mandatory.

You can buy cheaply made silks and yell

at us when they tear and unravel at practice.

You can throw a tantrum at the mom's

when you don't get your way with the silly tarp.

You can force us to stay late at practice

when you're the one who's late to get there.

You can be upset when we have to leave

on time and can't stay late for you to teach us.

You can waste our time to write our

work while at our practice and we do nothing.

You can rush us to finish everything and

sit there and fix your hair instead of helping.

You can break our arms by making us

carry ten pieces of equipment without a flag bag.

You can decide on the same hairstyle for

performance that looks like we have no hair.

You can refuse to let us have weapons

even if we can learn them and pay for them all.

You can drop our attitude and change

our minds toward Guard so we lose our passion.

You can tell us to "push through" when

your negativity rubs off on us every single day.

You can bring your friends to help you

make our lives a living Hell when you're there.

You can convince everyone that its

always us and never you, because "you're perfect".

You can mislead us each year into

thinking you've actually changed for the better.

You can frustrate us and threaten us

if we have something more important than you.

You can treat us like a world Guard

and be disappointed every time you see we aren't.

You can take out every toss you put

in, without even watching to see if it looks good.

You can tell us we have to compete

to be a captain when seniors have the rights.

You can call us out one at a time when

we aren't being perfect positive princesses.

You can screw us over for your new job

and leave us the week before nationals.

You can show up at our final football game

on All Hallow's Eve, saying "fix our attitude".

You can announce your supremacy

in front of everyone, and expect that to be okay.

You can push us into quitting next year

because of your treatment of us and favoritism.

You can live precariously through a

member and give her a solo for the entire show.

You can assign flag work unequally

giving half of the guard no work for 5 sets in a row.

You can act uncaring to us as our

mental breakdowns from stress destroy our sanity.

You can guilt us by saying you're a

volunteer to help us, but really you get paid for it.

You are the reason we have begun

to hate Guard, which we were so passionate about.

But could you deal with it
 if we did all of this
to you?

Reviews

[Barbara Walker]

This is an honest rant, displaying all your complaints about losing positive feelings you once had. I found it a bit difficult to read, especially the yellow font. Some of us are old geezerettes and we need all the help we can get!

[Juliet Page]

Wow. That about sums it up!