Digging up dirt

By Rhiannonw

Tue, 09 Jan 2024
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Many gladly dig, revealing
others’ sins, their own concealing;
don’t consider pressures past
trivialising sins which now leave all aghast.

But now, do they regret
behaviour of that time desire to forget?
living presently by better rules,
wishing that they hadn’t been such fools?
It’s hard to publicly confess
such details of a mess
especially if some such accusations are untrue –
such mix of muck with innuendo threading through.

And in the future?
Maybe one day some sins that now
are thought to be respectable
will then be seen as totally, completely unacceptable,
and many who at present feel complacent
will feel much shame of attitudes for which they humbly will repent.

[IP: past, present, future]

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Submitted by Rhymes And Reasons on

'To error is human - to forgive is devine.' Friendship does indeed flourish at the fountain of forgiveness. Lovely Verse! 

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jacques. Yes, there is a lack often of encouraging being sorry and going a better way, with forgiveness, and a hypocrisy in not being honest about one's own failings and need of repentance. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

Wise words Rhiannon. One of my bugbears is how we can easily judge others, when we ourselves could be judged as much. 

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

True. Thank you, Dougie. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

This made me think of the Post Office scandal, how so many to be trying to blame someone else. No one in power comes out of it looking good, and best to say sorry rather than point their finger

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I hadn't thought of that, though that is obviously under much scrutiny. It is never easy to see why people made bad decisions, and which were foolish, which were ill-informed at the time, which were wilfully neglegent, when were people afraid to confess what they realised had been wrong.

Having lived through the permisive sixties, and on, and the discarding of  fidelity and encouragement of loose temporary flings which now are realised to often have really been to the demeaning of 'weaker' women, and always had consequences, we now see the accusations and condemnations tumbling in, often with no room for repentance, and much hypocrisy. I guess it is all the Epstein and Maxwell digging and speading that was particularly on my mind. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by marandina on

"But now, do they regret
behaviour of that time desire to forget?
living presently by better rules,
wishing that they hadn’t been such fools?"

 

I like the rhythm and rhyming in this. I imagine it took a while to pull together. There are lots of examples to draw upon that make the point of the poem. It's very nicely done, Rhiannon. Paul

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Paul.  I appreciate your thoughtful read. I think the thoughts gathered together had been simmering for some time, and eventually came together compactly I hope. Rhiannon