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Published: 2004-04-09 00:20:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 2691; Favourites: 35; Downloads: 1438
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You call it disgraceI call it freedom
You won't speak to my face
But you'll rip out my spine
I laugh at your words
Too careless to heed them
I don't follow your morals
And you don't follow mine
So what can you tell me
That I should believe?
Was I truly created
With no option to feel?
You may call it a choice
Facades a mind can conceive
But your opinion won't make this
Any less real
And you wonder somewhere
In the back of your mind
If my "opprobrious" ways
Are disgraceful at all
Because inside your heart
Buried too deep to find
You've felt the same things
Now concealed by your wall
So you watch as I pass
A canvas covered with life
Colors you'd wished to wear
But opted to hide
You ask your God to explain
All of your internal strife
You're society's puppet
Deprived and denied
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Comments: 49
Hey... this poem is really awesome and I love how you ended it
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wow nice you do some great stuff 100
{im stupid}
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it wouldnt happen to be the jamestown high lit mag would it?
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it would, it would....
por que mi amor?
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Nicely written, it reads beautifuly. I agree with an earlier comment, this would be wonderful read aloud!
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Really really really a good poem!
I like it a looooooooot!
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wow...this one blew me away. im guessing it either took you ages or it just all flowed out like a river, right? either way, it's brilliant - moving and, perhaps most important, full of truth. the world needs more writers like you!
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more of the latter...I had a lot to say
thanks
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You call it disgrace
I call it freedom
You won't speak to my face
But you'll rip out my spine
I laugh at your words
Too careless to heed them
I don't follow your morals
And you don't follow mine
this verse is my favorite.
the morals bit i can realte to so well.
i have found that those who judge others by there sins, for example homosexuality, are cruel and horrible people
aren't they the ones who sin?
i love this poem to pieces that is why i will favorite it
one of the best.
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i loved your poem....i am kinda insomniac now so anything good to read at night is a life saver....thank you for writing such an amazing piece
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This was really good. :3 I can't believe you were strong enough to write this for a school assignment. 
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That is an amazing poem. It really get backs at the people who judge and hurt others while they ignore their own shortcomings. Very well done, i loved it's meaning.
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Wow, it's hard to find a poem on dA that actually touches me, hell, if I have to admit it, it's hard to find a poem I'll actually read, but I lapped this up! I loved the rhyming scheme on this
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i'm really glad it doesn't have a typical rhyme scheme. there's nothing i hate more than that. i like the discriptions and.. that's really all i can think of to say.. ;_; uh.. good job
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I don't like it. It seems milked out. Nowing when to stop would help.
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Knowing how to spell helps too..
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Oh my, I like it. And I do not say that to all too many.
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Wonderful worded emotional journey
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ah! i love that poem. so true. excellent use of the word
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awesome! you defined the word very well in your poem as well as expressing you feelings about it.
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Im an emotional poet and this is lovely, purely lovely. lm going to fav it! l want your skill!
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this is a very solid poem. feels like running into a brick wall but not bothering to notice you've stopped. liberating.
sorry if i'm making no sense. what i mean is, this is an amazing poem. mind-blowing, honest, and. . .wow. i salute you.
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I stand before you here, or rather sit before you as I type these words, in utter stupification. I am in the process of writing a column or article about how the members of the church are so anxious to deprive a group of persecuted people their civil liberties. I speak of the lately debated question of same sex marriage. I am researching the history of the church, and in particular the protestant religions and the so-called Great Reformers, such as John Calvin and Martin Luther. One of the books I have been reading is a small volume compilation of lectures given to the PostβGraduate Classes of the University of Georgetown by M. F. Morris then a professor of Constitutional Law in the winters of 1895β6 and 1896β7. The lectures deal with the history of Constitutional and Civil Liberties throughout the history of Human kind, and the word he uses most frequently when describing these notβsoβgreat Reformers is the title of your poem.
When I saw your title, and then read the poem, I gained so much insight into the subject. Your words are inspiration to me! One of the messages that Mr. Morris drives home in his message is that Civil Liberty apart from Religious Liberty is impossible, and Freedom of Religion without Freedom of Conscience is the purest form of fiction. When the Christ spoke to the people during the Sermon on the Mount and said that there are only two commandments: to Love God and Love your neighbour, he was in actuality speaking of freedom of conscience, religion, and civilian. One cannot withhold liberties from one's neighbours and live those two commandments as well. One who would commit such a sin would deserve the most horrid obloquies that any one could promulgate. It is this very sin that the Protestant Evangelical Churches are committing with invectives so opprobrious as to even cause the Savior to hang His head in shame. I doubt if that would be the kind of message He would want His church to be sending to the world, especially during this the most Holy Season in the Christian calendar, and especially when He said His people would be known by how much they loved.
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If we're going to get into religious and philosophical debate- isn't any sin a sin? What I mean to say is, in God's eyes, there isn't any separation between a murderer and someone who has lustful thoughts; the fact is, you still screwed up and that's the end of it. I'm very cautious of throwing around phrases like "One who would commit such a sin would deserve the most horrid obloquies that any one could promulgate." namely because there are a multitude of sins that we commit every single day. That doesn't mean they're right by any means, but I don't think we need to be putting one sin above or below another... they're just flat sin all-around. And at that... who are we to say which ones cause God the most grief- aside from turning our back on Him altogether- isn't that His job?
Sorry- I'm not trying to justify or discriminate against homosexual marriage... or your rights and freedoms as a believer in Christianity, or any other religion.... or nonreligion... I'm just saying that the most important thing is the last part of what you said- love. If we are to expect love from anyone, shouldn't we give it as well? On both sides- if we do not love one another, even when we screw up, how can anything ever get any better? Right... okay, I'm leaving now. Hope this doesn't piss off too many people, I'd like to be able to keep this name on here. lol
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What I am trying to say is that when one is given a sacred trust and then misuses that trust to promote one's own personal agenda, then yes, that one should be held up to public scorn and defamation. Agreed that no one sin is worse than another, but church leaders are measured by a higher measure than others because they should know better.
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If concerning Christian clergy, they're supposed to support gay marriage? Otherwise, this is a bad thing?
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Sounds like you've just written your article.
Well said, for the both of you!
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Actually those few paragraphs are only the barest outline of the full article, but thanks.
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I love it!! I wish they would assign something like this for me at school!!
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This has a wonderful rhythm to it, which would make it ideal for being spoken. Very well written all around, gets the point (which is a beauitful point) across pperfectly. Even if I had not read the introduction and learned what "opprobrium" means, I would still understand what it means (at least for the context of the poem), which says a lot for the writing.
"But your opinion won't make this
Any less real" <-- Beautiful lines.
Good job!
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Very very nice. Interesting idea for a school assignment as well.
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