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BY: JACK M. BRANCH#R17203
FLORIDA STATE PRISON
3/10/18
"Hypocrite"
So you think you know me huh?
Got me all figured out.
Well the opinions of people like you, I can get by without.
So eager to pass judgement on me, to point the tell-tale finger.
Do like everybody else; go on! Get away!
No need for you to linger.
I love whom I do, I don't expect you to understand,
Take your condemnation and the like, to a faraway land.
If you won't respect my love, don't expect me to answer your call.
Perhaps you should be grateful, that I can love at all.
Who says, love has to conform to this societies standards?
No longer do I need your misguidance like that of a turn-coat commander.
Since for you it'd be beauty unrefined,
But for me its call an, "ATROCITY!"
Truth be told you can't even say anything, because it'd be based on Hypocrisy.
You taught me to follow my heart, provided I did as you wanted me to.
After all this, you're just like everyone else; imprisoned by social cues and miscues.
I'm through being blinded by everyone else's point of view.
BY: JACK M. BRANCH#R17203
FLORIDA STATE PRISON
P.O.BOX 800
RAIFORD, FLORIDA, 32083-0800
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I love this. I love the last line, "I'm through being blinded by everyone else's point of view."
I also love the line, "You taught me to follow my heart, provided I did as you wanted me to." I think that line was especially powerful for me. I think it's a feeling that a lot of people feel, unfortunately. The feeling that other people tell them things like "be who you want to be" and "be yourself" but they don't really mean it.
I personally interpreted this poem as poetry about LGBT issues considering the line "I love who I do", but it could be about other situations as well, of course.
As always, your poetry is powerful to me. I love reading your poetry. It's one of the things I look forward to everyday, to see if one of your poems has been posted.
-Grace