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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #1545479
this was written by reflecting on a bad childhood experience
Why is it acceptable to
Terrorize, Ostracize, and Humiliate
Those different than ourselves?
What deity tells you that this is not a despicable deed.

What motion within yourself tells you it's not reprehensible to leave another with an everlasting scar.
Scars of wounds so maggot infested, rotten and infected,so deep and so painful, so everlasting
Healing just isn't happening
What makes that just?

What preconceived motion gave you the notion that it wouldn't destroy.
What part of this is ever so ethical?
What cognitive process justifies you doing this to another
What about your brother,

Or maybe your sister?
Your aunt,
Or maybe your uncle?
Would you treat these family around you,

With the same cruelty that you have shown another?
Are we not as human as you?
Since when was the right yours to criticize,
That which is no different, no less a man, no more a superman, than you yourself claim to be.

For being slightly less or slightly more
In any field you may have chosen
In the end, we're the same
So why can you pragmatically criticize me
With something less than a conscious

I sat
I listened
I took all your hatefully vicious words in

I was hurt
I left
But I learned something that you never will
It's called compassion, caring and love, take a note of that

I learned
I grew
But the scars are there and the memories still haunt.
They're not going away
Any time soon

Likely never at all
Its a fact I am forced to live with
But I accept it
Now I'm back

And I'm calling you out
On this one matter
This matter which has affected me severely
What lets you so savagely strip at my humanity

Why is it OK? Have you no remorse?
How can you live with yourself,
Knowing you've broken another soul
Answer me this, or hold your tongue


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