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I had nothing to do one evening after a certain incident....

 

10 times guilty

 

I`m guilty for not being grateful enough,

I`m guilty for being sometimes too tough,

or maybe just because I`m too weak

and for not being always so very neat.

I`m guilty for being so modest they say

but if I wouldn`t be, I`d be guilty in other way.

It`s said I`m guilty when I very much talk

but it`s also wrong when I silently walk.

They think I`m a fool if I don`t fall in love

but they don`t know that of their knowledge I`m above.

I`m always guilty for not being guilty at all,

that`s because between me and the world there is a wall.

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Hmm... this reminds me of my mom. She's convinced that she can't do anything right.

 

I like this... but it seems as if you had to rearrange your sentences a lot to make the rhyme work out. I may be a little odd... but when I write my poems, I write my line with my rhyme word in mind. It's like "Ok... I need something that rhymes with bare, so... dare, bare, lair, rare, tear, tare, fare... lair. I need to work in something about a lair." Maybe try that, if it makes any sense?

 

*Hugs* I know how this feels. (Many apologies if I'm unintelligible today)

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I`m always guilty for not being guilty at all

That really struck home. My sister hates me because I seem perfect to her. It's kind of ironic. Nice job expressing everything. I think it's okay the sentences are twisted around a bit. I do that sometimes.

but if I wouldn`t be, I`d be guilty in other way.

I think maybe if this was changed to

but if I wasn't, I'd be guilty in every other way.

But that's just me.

Posted

Hmmm.

Guilt just seems to me to be such a wasted attitude.

 

It chains people into the past and forces odd controlling overtones on them 'cause usually someone is trying to force the guilt on them, trying to force the error into the person and combine them.

"You erred because you are bad." How silly. How defeating.

"You erred because of this. You might be good, you might be bad, but that really has nothing to do with fixing the error." That seems a bit more productive to me.

 

It would seem to me that it would be more productive to acknowledge a problem occurred, brainstorm on how to prevent it next time, and then move on through the present into the future and when the occasion occurs again, implement the solution determined in the brainstorming.

 

lather, rinse, repeat.

 

Define the problems, not the person.

 

 

-A Peredhil two-cents

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