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Me and judgement

Have always had our problems

It’s so fluent and unfiltered

Often clunky and so graceless

But so cold as it falls from the lips of a stranger

And cooler still from the lips of a loved one

Settles in and weighs on my thoughts

And haunts me like a lover lost

There are moments when I clear my head

Shake and blink and wish it dead

It’s weight unwelcome as I lay in bed

Tell me then, judgement

Are you fed?

You cross my eyes

And curl my fists

Point them inwards

And that’s where they hit

You make me rage

And question why

All this control

Why don’t you die?!

You fester deep inside our souls

So at home inside us all

Latching on to simple thought

What is this strength?

Where is it from?

Tell me judgement

Do you have fun?

Published in Daily Times, April 5^th 2018.