Analysis of Entitled Free Speech



Many of us,
Learn our lessons taught,
Long after the rules of school,
We pretend to listen...
With a paying of attention.
As to what we should do,
To live successful and productive lives.

Although too many take advantage,
Of those entitlements given.
To reinterpret them,
Whenever there is a need to feel...
A doing of free speech,
As a reason and purpose...
To disrespect and demean,
Other fellow human beings.
With this publicly done to score revenge,
Upon anyone.

Then to believe...
Our freedom to do whatever we please,
Is birthright to us given...
To weaponize our tongues.
Or with guns, knives and poles...
Displaying a waving American flag.
Attached to attack,
The ones we dislike.
Because their interests are not ours to have.

Especially shown to the ones,
Who assisted us to achieve our status.
And the pretentiousness,
Of arriving to receive temporary success.
With this to believe,
Our ungrateful to get achievements.
Leaves where we sit,
In untouchable positions.
Could remove what we possess to value.
With only our narcissistic ego,
Left to protest...
Against a reality to delude and fiction,
Ourselves living independently...
Shining brighter than any star.
Until who proves what it is we value most,
Can be easily removed...
From a butt raised too high.
Lowered to learn can be burned as if toast.
Thrown away disgusted by the smell of it!

Many of us learn our lessons,
Early with them taught to teach.
As schools remain in session.
With a wanting to desire to live successfully.

Although...
Incredible as it is,
There are others,
Wishing to want...
Themselves to be worshipped.
As a symbol to idolize and praise.
Like characters fictioned to watch on TV.

Until one day,
They discover to find...
Their behinds kicked to the curb.
Found to moan and whine,
Over their freedom of speech.
Not to believe,
Even pain to feel...
Leaves no one immune from receiving,
Regret or remorse.
And delivered directly with empathy given.

However...
In certain situations,
Exceptions are made.
When someone displays unrelenting proof,
Fools and idiots are used to exhibit...
Some lessons to learn,
Immediately to observe and seen to teach...
Is better than attempting to pop.
One's bubble in mid flight.
Or a kite trying to fly,
On the quick to stop...
A mouth full of hot air!

People with the 'bucks',
Know when to shut a disgusting mouth up!

'Is that your opinion?'

No.
I refer to it as observing reality.
With...
Eyes left opened wide and ears used to hear,
More dependable.


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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,486
Words 516
Sentences 55
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 7, 10, 9, 19, 4, 7, 10, 12, 2, 1, 5
Lines Amount 86
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Written on November 02, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on November 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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