Chip Off the Shoulder!

Some people have a chip,
it's not just on their shoulder
it's embedded so deep within
you can actually see it smolder.

They usually are burning mad,
seething with smoke and steam
and their poisonous fumes
are deadly when they scream.

They carry around a grudge,
about something from their past
like a time bomb about to go off
you can sense their deadly blast.

They rant and they rave,
about how everything's unfair
and like a chip off the shoulder
their anger is meant to ensnare.

Some people have a chip,
their venom they like to spew
but God doesn't want it to become
something embedded in you!

Psalm 37:8
King James Version

"Cease from anger, and forsake wrath:
fret not thyself in any wise to do evil."

This poem won second place for the October 2013 poetry contest