Haiku a Day

my older siblings
by nearly a decade would
taunt without mercy
using a made up slur which
would send me into a tantrum 

It's meaning unknown
by all of us, even them
still wounded me deep
then parental discipline
ended their bullying glee

but they scribbled it
all over the basement walls
now etched in my soul
I'm forever an "oottsie"
whatever that may mean

scarred for life you say
perhaps, but I have my doubts
even a made up word
an "oottsie" I may be but
nobody likes a whiner