Email Poem

Your IP Address: 3.133.123.140

Your Email Address:

To Email Address:

Subject

Personal Note:

Poem Title:

Poem

To be immune from aspersions mean and vile
May assuage our hurt feelings for awhile
But to really uphold the Golden Rule
We must also withhold words harsh and cruel—by poet

In an upside-down world
Where self-victimization
is a realization and hatred lingers, it goes nowhere
May not yet get it, and still not self-aware
Now some may think that healing is
Ignoring what is destroying and go on enjoining                  
others near them to do the same, their end game
Using, medicating with words as ammunition stored on a shelf
Toxicity is there, taken aback, down deep in yourself
Hatred lingers, collecting dust mites 
Imploding,  suffocating smites and is on reserve                                                         
In a mindset where glory they deserve 
Personal gut-wrenching bile packaged
Collecting more dust, disgust has an impact
It only makes you a stronger  hellcat 
One that hasn’t let go of the baggage
Is in an upside-down world of their own 
On their own and may think they’re OK
Flies in the ointment, stagnant,  a delay,  decay                                                               
In a world where “making it better” ails, and means 
Undoing what has taken lives in time in details
Only bequests, and is deeded
A new form of healing is much needed 
Healing is   embracing  the newest challenges 
There are bigger issues, bigger things   
Then just you, heed the warnings
It begins within

“Civil war tested the proposition that America is one nation indivisible”—from the book “With Malice Toward None"— Stephen B. Oates

CAPTCHA Preview

Type the characters you see in the picture

Required