PITY THE CRITIC

 

Just cause an alcoholic kicked the bottle...
Does not mean they have picked the lock to God

What you are still faced with, is their addiction...
For needing to be right at your expense.

Just cause you go to therapy all year
Does not mean that you are a therapist

A person could hear 10,000 symphonies
And still not write one line that pleases one ear
Except their own; to mine for gold in road kill
Is what the stupid do to those in pain

Pity the critic.

Especially a critic with no talent

There’s not a single soul that’s not a critic
(Yes is a slave to no for every mess)

The virtue is to keep it locked inside
Except through light escaping through the windows’
Closed curtains seen by people in the street

When something’s really bad, all that’s required
Is giving off a private glow of no.

The wordy critic always shoots their feet
With laughter’s after-taste of “just-bad meat”

It never matters if the critic’s right
Their tragedy is guaranteed as death
Because the winners always get their check
From losers, breaking their own beauty’s neck.

Reviews

[black_rose_obsession]

I'm afraid to say anything about it, criticizing this poem feels like contradicting myself, but I will 'comment' on it. I think it's well written, there's no doubt you put alot of thought into the words you write and I applaud you for that 'aplause'. This poem has alot of potential, and I can tell that potential is coming from the writer. You did an amazing and wonderful job writing this nad you have an absolute talent, I admire you for being so bold as to say that just because an alcoholic has kicked the bottle doesn't mean he's locked with God and honestly I completely agree, just becuase you get rid of somehing about you and getting rid of that something makes you eligable for another thing, it IS every persons choice weither or not they want that eligability. Great right! keep writing!

[Thorn]

I would love to know your exact source of inspiration. ^^
Nice wording, but a little confusing at times. Though maybe that was the point?
Overall; well done!

[Lola Nation]

Who would dare criticize this poem?

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