High on your hill you just look down your nose
Where self-supremacy and hypocrisy grows
Only filth and bile drips from your mouth
A moral compass that always points south
To all of us you're a carnival clown
You build yourself up by tearing us down
You feign humility and sincerity
But a fool on the hill forever you'll be
If you could would you give something of yourself to better a life of someone you may never even know?
Do you live for niceties, niceties, niceties or do you live?
Do you appreciate the weak jawed woes of education bought or education earned to make the life of somebody
Do you look down your nose at trade or honest hard earned skills because of the stupidity of breed?
Do you see the importance of or do you cut yourself away from the snobbish ancient rules of fools and their antiquated, irrelevant society.
Is social mobility a road only open to the clique of the variety of monies?
He’s an engineer, she’s an engineer
Does it matter if the degree was bought at court or within clubs or sold to someone who wanted a life, a hope, a dream to live hard earned, honestly and free?
Are the shackles of somebody’s ancestry a bind to how they could be?
Look at what we’ve got. The sheer elitist rot, tell me is that our lot or do we bend and break to deliver hope to the hopeless of their twisted, evil and archaic society?
Don't cause yourself trouble where there's no need.
Don't yield to temptations of lust, power and greed.
No matter the reasons for the things you do,
They always come back, they come home to you.
Things never work out for those who break rules.
They always get caught and then look like fools.
Some rules are written, some just common sense,
And those who ignore them are stupid and dense.
Don't look down your nose when you don't understand.
Ask questions before you let judgement stand.
There are things that go on we know nothing about.
Our opinions oft differ once things are found out.
When tempted to cast bad light on a neighbor,
With tongues that drip venom and cut like a saber,
Think how you'd feel if he did that to you.
Speak ill of another and hurt yourself too.
Put a note in a bottle, cast it into the sea.
In a day or a week it comes back to thee.
Whether written or spoken all words have power.
Speak not without thought, the results could be dour.
So make sure it's good, spread kindness my friend,
And whatever you do, don't spit into the wind.
America used to be great, then we stopped reaching for the stars.
We let our petty differences dictate just where we are.
We separated church and state, we took God right out of our schools.
We point our fingers and judge and keep changing all of the rules.
Everyone was created equal, that’s a statement we seem to forget.
God loves all of his children and he doesn’t play favorites.
Whether you are gay, straight or transgender, black, white or red.
Jesus loves us all equally, don’t judge, just make your own bed.
None of us have the right, to pass judgement and force our beliefs.
We all will answer to God on the day he comes to debrief.
The next time you’re on your soapbox and look down your nose at me.
Remember you’re not alone, he’s watching and he can see.
After the Election:
The bustling-frenzy has died
Leaving us all wide-eyed.
Just when you think you know the end,
You are startled by the result.
Did you stand in the cue
To vote for the red and blue,
Or did you look down your nose
At all others who took a vote?
But now it is all dusted and gone,
We’ve sang our patriotic song.
It seems a little stale now,
As if the world has come to an end.
There is no politics to debate,
We have after all sealed our fate.
What should we discuss now?
No topic seems worthwhile.
But still life does abound,
If you’d only look around.
Take a deep breath,
And go on a new adventure.
Don't Look Down Your Nose
By Franklin Price
7/17/2016
Don't look down your nose at me
I'm just as good as you
I may not have the things you have
Or do the things you do
There is no yacht upon the sea
Or a mansion on the hill
But I like who's in the mirror
And I know I always will
That someone there looks back at me
And winks, how is your day?
I wink right back, and give a grin,
And this is what I say
Got food upon the table
Got a roof above my head
Got a wife who really loves me
Family, friends who make me glad
A little money in my pocket
After all the bills are here
Can use it for vacation
Or a cold, hot summer, beer
Could have been a millionaire
But I'm happy, don't you see
I love the life I'm living
Don't look down your nose at me
It amazes me how to you the blood line rules
It amazes me that you consider us fools
You condemn us for the blood in our veins
For the resemblance of him in our young faces and ways
Look down your nose at boys you have made!
Consider us 'less' than the new boy you've made?
It amazes me that you count yourself cool?
That you count yourself out of his little fools
LOOK in the mirror you fool and see it there for yourself
I've got your eyes, your hair, his jaw and chin as well!
But the blood you chastise that runs in my veins is half yours you fool
So chastise yourself too and remember that you were the first fool.
Don't get upset with all this mess that I'm about to reveal
I can't control the need to convey exactly how I feel
I hate you
It's true, I really do
I hate your hair, I hate your face, I hate that fake smile that shows
I hate your lips, I hate you cheeks and even the eyes that look down your nose
I hate your ego, I hate your humor and exactly where you stand
I hate your charm, I hate your look, I hate the way you don't understand
I hate the pain that my heart must hide
I hate that I hate on the inside
I hate that you're the only person whose made me feel this way before
I'm sure you hate me too, but I'm sure I hate you more
What are values and what good do they do?
Simply they are standards we know that need to be followed, ones we know to be true.
They are not made to be hurtful, quite opposite in fact,
They are free for all and to be used with diplomacy and tact.
Little things like respect can set you apart,
Kindness towards others is a great place to start.
Never look down your nose at others less fortunate as you,
Sometimes all that is needed is a hand and someone to show them what to do.
Many a great man has slipped and taken a spill,
But it was a bigger man that helped them to their feet and climb over that hill.
We hardly ever see someone’s potential as well as we see their mistakes,
Those that do are the ones that know the value of sharing the cake.
Values and morals they all hold a place,
And help us each day to better our lives and stand up to the problems we face.
They give us a sense of direction as to what is right and what is wrong,
Without certain values we are lost and that is an altogether different song.
There’s a baby shower coming up next week
I don’t think that I want to go
It hits a nerve, and a sensitive spot
I don’t want how I feel to show
I know if I go, my heart will break
And the tears just might start flowing
It breaks me down, they’re favored of God
That’s the reason I am not going
Call me jealous if you really wanna
Don’t look down your nose at me
Until you’ve faced what I’ve been through
Don’t judge me, but leave me be
When you can see all your classmates
That have always been better than you
They’re having babies and still the upper hand
Don’t look at me as you do!
If you want to go to this baby shower
I can tell you when and where it’s at
Don’t twist my are ‘cause I’m not going
I’m not going and it’s simple as that!
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