Human beings
Do nothing better
Than judge each other to death.
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How dare you judge me still?
My inner executioners
Paraded my head around the crowds
Before you even knew how betrayed you felt.
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You judged me
According to a detail
And turned a blind eye to the big picture
Because it fitted the frame you put me in.
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Let me be my own judge.
I’m in competent hands.
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It’s extraordinary that people with
The most judgemental tongues
Are also the ones who have no idea who they are
And what they themselves have done.
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And as you reveal your judgements to me
You reveal the way you speak to yourself
When nobody’s listening.
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At some point, in order to survive and then live,
Self-judgement needs to metamorphose into self-forgiveness.
Croque-Melpomene 