DETRACTORS
Detractors try to tear you down
To reduce you to their plain,
Decrying you, lying to you
Until you're half insane.
You're racist, or you're sexist.
Or some other word ending in '-ist',
Because you have your own thoughts
And don't stick to the list,
Detractors are high and mighty
They say they're never wrong,
And those who dare to question them
It seems just don't belong
So out we have to go
Along with the other trash,
Because we didn't toe the line
They say we're stupid and brash.
Honesty, today, is not the best policy
Because honesty just isn't allowed,
And if we dare to speak the truth
We're badgered and we're cowered.
Detractors make up rules
Too often for us to follow,
But truly like the lies they teach
Their rules are mostly hollow.
They tell us all to think alike
Originality is not allowed,
And if we think to question them
For God's sake don't say it aloud.
For insurrection isn't tolerated
Just be a good cabbage and toe the line,
Detractors make up immoral laws
Designed to dumb down your mind.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Detractors try to tear you down To reduce you to their plain, Decrying you, lying to you Until you're half insane.
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Written on 2014
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 30, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA BBXB CDED FGHG CIXB XFXF XIEI XHXX XXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,055 |
Words | 196 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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