Tired Of The Hypocrisy

I don’t speak for them and they don’t speak for me;

There may be much on which we cannot agree.

A vast gulf may eternally divide us,

A concept too many cannot seem to suss;

Still, decency, courtesy, and dignity.

Absolute Truth exists independently,

Not based on personal relativity.

One of us is correct, the others unsound;

Their beliefs and mine may not find common ground,

But decency, courtesy, and dignity.

They complain I constrain their morality,

While forcing on me their view of charity.

We are polar opposites, to be direct;

And we may never share each other’s respect,

Just decency, courtesy, and dignity.

They see a restrictive uniformity;

I see a fake individuality.

They think a brotherhood of man is progress;

But I see calamity we must regress

To decency, courtesy, and dignity.

They cry it’s the death of creativity;

I see a spoiled child’s rank immaturity.

Where they see liberty, I just see license;

The rule of law is the only safe defense

Of decency, courtesy, and dignity.

We dare not rely on our humanity;

History shows we have no divinity.

The goodness of man hypocrisy must cease

If we want a society based on peace

Through decency, courtesy, and dignity.