No Respect
People whose philosophical ways
are contrary to the teachings of God,
will get no respect from me,
they'll get no polite nod
I reject their solicitations for comraderie,
they get no handshakes from me
Practitioners of dark iniquities
deserve only heaps of scorn and mockery
Lovers of lasciviousness,
regaling in feasts of riotous days
Foaming out their shame for all to see,
no, they'll get no respect from me
I will not bow,
I will not bend knee,
though they be proclaimed as
intellectual royalty
I eschew their wicked ways,
place no worth on their evil words
Let the worms of their reproach
be fed to the carrion birds
As death do flow from their breath,
and empties into an unlit nether place ...
The only respect that should be given
to a walking dead man,
is the grave greeting him with a silent embrace
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2016
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