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A POEM ON JUDGEMENT
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What are the rules for judgment these days?
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Do we judge for self like I’ve been doing along my way?
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Do we listen, then inside make a choice?
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Or do we listen to those people who think,
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“Only they have a voice?”
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Is judgment not for self, in knowledge,
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Feelings and desires?
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Does experience have any meaning,
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So my reasoning does transpire?
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It’s my training, according to masters of thought,
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Judging others we do not do,
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How can we judge one another
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and to ourselves be true?
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I believe I make a judgment for self,
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The only way through,
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For if I judge anyone else,
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I might hurt that person’s passage,
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Does the soul account for nothing
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After many years of life?
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Does my experience as a student,
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a worker, a mother and a wife?
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Account for zilch, after all the struggles,
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That this hybrid walked through,
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Are we to recognize our individual dreams
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Are the only thing to pursue?
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Does all my learning go for not,
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because some other hybrid can’t comprehend?
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Do determinations make my decisions
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Come from faculties within?
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Do reflective judgments build my cognitions
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The faculties good and strong?
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To after all these years not even be respected,
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To be told that I am all wrong,
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I was told when I was younger,
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Ignorance was no excuse,
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So I repeatedly worked hard,
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So I would never be confused,
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All masters of thought I studied,
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There were books galore along my trek,
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My conclusion of the complexities of life,
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Do not Judge, but do accept,
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Even differences I learned to respect,
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because of learning each must do,
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When do others treat me with the same respect
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I offer each of you?
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Jesus is my Savior, when recognizing
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thought of each
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Is not so complex, with Jesus in the center,
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our glue to guide and teach,
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But now I have these people treating me today,
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Like I’ve not seen the inside of a book,
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And much to my dismay,
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Even professors of Universities
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Are subjective in thought,
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Is all research and objective knowledge,
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all going to be forgot?
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Or is it time to think and recognize
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Judging others can go astray,
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If no thought goes into each persons right
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to have freedoms to discriminate,
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Let our choices be based on what we know
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Of Self to not eliminate,
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Freedoms in this country
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exchanged for those who wish to dictate.
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Written by Carolyn D. Hogarth Shared