You stepped way out of line today.
Was it necessary to embarrass me as you did?
I was doing as you asked.
Why was your action warranted?
You stepped into the line I was in,
You grabbed me by the ear
You pulled me way
As if I was some misbehaving child
In front of so many
My family, my friends.
Did you have any understanding
Any inkling of how affronting that was?
I ask myself, what were you thinking?
You relish my public humiliation
You seem oblivious to its impact
That leaves me cowering inside
Unwilling to venture far from any path
Looking for ways to avoid you and public places.
How dare you behave in such ways.
Never again are you to subject me
In private or public to such an indignity.
It is time you took some responsibility
Saw me as something more than a man
To manipulate, to shape to whatever
Whim you are exercising today.
Written for: http://pookypoetry.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/poetry-prompt-42-reprimand/
Morpethroad 
I like the way this poem surprises the reader. All the way through until the third last line, I had assumed (rightly or wrongly) that this was written with a female voice. The surprise is all the more effective for making me challenge that assumption. Thank you.
Thanks Emily. My name can be confusing so thanks so much for your comment. I guess it’s expected that the perpetrator be male.
Well at least you told them in the end.
Thank you Jen, I did didn’t I.
Powerful read Michael. And a terrible, embarrassing incident that shouldn’t happen to anyone.
Thank you Jackie, no it should not. Please drop by again.
I read this imagining that this was the first time you’d spoken up despite suffering this indignity multiple times. It takes huge strength to speak up x
Thank you Pooky, your prompt gave me the opportunity, and it was a few years ago now.
Wow! That was powerful and could feel it was a way overdo reprimand…good on you! Oliana
Thank you Oliana, it certainly was.
Enough is enough!
True and it was. Thanks RoSy.