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Where are we now?

By Roleby ColvinPublished 6 years ago 2 min read
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When did we stop paying attention to the character of someones heart, and instead place more value on the words they choose…

Why has it come to be that evil prays in pretty words and golden speech…

Because that is the way of things now…

That is simply how it is done…

Cover your voice in honey, make it sweet.

Push the buzz feed issues to the garbled masses, where words rule over actions instead of hanging in the balance of both those worlds…

It takes no effort to hide a hateful heart behind a pretty face, we want to believe the beauty fills the void inside and out …

But no my friends this is just not the way it works…

Beware words devoted to sinking razor blade barbs into your minds… beware the golden deed…

for it is said all that glitters…

Give me a foul mouth, low brow, salt of the earth person, let their speech ring with an ignorant tone and full hearts…

let them be, if they love!…

let them be…

This world is filled with hate, self-absorbed masses looking down their noses at flickering screens and righteous judgement against our vocabulary…

Call me a redneck!

Call me trash…

Let the vulgar wave crash…

But show me the respect in your actions …

That’s where it counts …

It’s not found in a book…

It is not in the mouth of preachers screaming on the street…

Because words have become sharper than swords, and so bloated with trigger happy activism, they have lost their power…

We have shamed those whose only crime is ignorance…

We are not educating…

We are creating conformity… shunting the individual to the masses everyone is so avid to fight for…

Fight for us to be equal…

There is no hate in equality…

There is no limit in tolerance…

There is only understanding, that no one is built exactly the same, That we are here, not to harm and hinder, but to lift up to the sky our voice as one!

To SHOUT across the indifferent and narcissistic god's ENOUGH…

No my friends…

Delicate words do not make for holy saints…

Because the first to learn the newest language are always false prophets…

Riding on the waves of indifferent hearts…

Look at me as a person, watch my actions, and forgive my often ignorant words… there is no malice in my heart, just the belief that I love you… that this world is ours to share…

that its better when we work to make everyone’s life easier…

Pandemonium rules the righteous heart, be kind…

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