400 Poem Challenge (completed December 26, 10:15am)

hidden agenda

why am i looked at with contempt

an old man

with a hidden agenda

a new scam

i speak my mind

and people run

is the truth so hard

do i hold a gun

no i don't

what i hold ...

is a simple truth

i am old

so

i am not allowed

to speak my mind

to express my feelings

i should confine

after all

my motives must be

something south of 

of honesty

its amazing that as you get older

you must contain

the way you look

the way you react 

the way you talk

the way you act

it obvious

that i am 

dead