Poet Tellaferro Poet Free verse

Iuribus

A HOUSE DIVIDED
 
What right do you have to tell someone 
Else how to use their bodies like they should

You don’t run their life and they not yours 
How they meet their mistakes 
Is their own decision, to do as they should

Just because you hold up a book 
Written so long ago you believe 
the words of ancient hate… 
you still have not the right 
to tell me how to think

How out to date, out of context, 
used without understanding 
A text you can’t comprehend 
only misread, misrepresented

A book you claim appoints you to say 
This is what you should do 
and this what you should believe 
A false narrative in the ugliest
 of thoughts, deeds

How misguided, how blind, 
now corrupt and so naive
This is not that, not all the words 
were meant to be used as you see  
If you are not meant say, then don’t, 
it will set you free, 
It is your hypocrisy, your disease

To love and to be love, 
as that is the New Covenant 

Not the blasphemy of this 
the current government 
What gives you 
the right to tell someone 
Else what to do 
Yes, life is precious 
Life is glorious 

A Secret, none are 
born Holy N Perfected 
But this is the 
real world, the world 
Of life in flesh and blood 
not archaic stories 
Or bullet points to approve 
a false Armageddon

This is the real world, 
keep your high thoughts to yourself 
Let a man or woman, 
be a person who decides what they should be
All by themself, if they are ready 
to reap the rewards or oblivion

Let them decide with love and caring 
from those around them 
To make the correct decision 
Do not judge 
Or yet ye be judged 

Mistakes are made 
We’re all human 
We know it is up to that person to define 
What they need to do 

Or which way to go 
If you want to do the thing that is right 
Support them with all your might 

They may be inspired 
by what you feel is correct
Done in their best interest 
to give them 
All there is. ...is respect 

What right do you have 
to tell someone 
Else how to use their 
bodies like they should

You don’t run their life
they not yours 
How they meet their mistakes 
Is their own decision, 
to do as they should

Only they alone will stand in judgment…
Someday!

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