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:: How Dare You ::

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How dare you decide what is best for me
When you don't know what is best for you?

How dare you assume negatively towards others
When you frown upon those who assume negatively towards you?

How dare you berate those who use people
When you find delight every time you use someone?

How dare you preach that death threats are wrong
When you have threatened to end my life several times?

How dare you cry that you were raped
When you have shouted "I'm a virgin!" with pride?

How dare you use homophobic insults
When you are apart of the bisexual community?

How dare you criticize people who hurt themselves
When you have afflicted scars on your own body?

How dare you despise having your heart broken
When you have broken someone else's heart?

How dare you abominate teenage pregnancy
When you have siblings who gave birth before 18?

How dare you belittle people for their low intelligence
When you show how much you don't know?

How dare you disapprove of someone's blunt honesty
When you have a very sharp and cruel tongue?

How dare you claim to be a Christian
When you are in love with Satan?

How dare you scorn the wicked
When you are perhaps the most wicked of all?

How dare you value the truth
When you have always been a liar?

How dare you pretend to love
When you have no love in your heart at all?

How.  Dare.  You.
Title: "How Dare You"
Author: Me! :iconmadxrhapsodyx17:
Genres: Emotional, Reality, the Truth
Music Inspiration: [link] "This Song Is About You" by Olly Murs

Human beings judge. We judge ourselves; we judge other people; we judge what we do and don't understand; we judge what we love and hate. We judge everyone and everything because it's apart of our nature.

Some people have self-management over the judgments they make. Sometimes we take into consideration our own experiences and try to understand what is different. We attempt to take into perspective the other person's feelings and relate to them.

But there are some people who judge with such careless fervor. They make foul, unnerving and ruthless judgments on what they don't like. Some of them even have the audacity to judge what they don't like, yet they take part in it. They say one thing and do the opposite.

If you have done something wrong in the past, don't judge people who have done the same, or do it now. If you have people you care about that have taken part in a wrong, don't hate others who have done the same. If you commit a wrong, don't scold others if they have committed it as well.

Feedback is always welcome. Enjoy! :)

This poem and the writing (c) Me.

EDIT: Fixed the category from "Free Verse" to "Urban & Spoken Word".
© 2013 - 2024 MadxRhapsodyx17
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shaymind's avatar
umm... i've never tried to critique works before, so... bear with me.

the phrase How dare you! brings to mind rage and fury, which is fine, but only if that's the intended emotion, if it's not, change it. a few are slightly... off.  this line in particular sounds disturbing and slightly jarring:

How dare you cry that you were raped
When you have shouted "I'm a virgin!" with pride?

this one is less so, but still, I/whoever is not my/whoever's siblings
How dare you abominate teenage pregnancy
When you have siblings who gave birth before 18?

it also comes off as slightly judgemental on second reading, though idk if that;s just me.