entitativity

Cherry

By valiswaverider

Thu, 02 Oct 2025
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You are this I was told 

By people in Authority

Surely they must know 

Categorically speaking

 

Everything is organised 

Defined 

Rightly ordered 

 

Doubt crept into my mind 

It took root 

Things did nt add up 

 

I had little book 

Of attendance and examples 

Things to live up to

Role models 

 

These people were nt like me 

Or rather I was nt like them

For this crime I must be punished 

 

I did nt have the vocabulary to complain 

But I do now

Looking back I can see my effort to make sense of things was a waste of time 

I was categorised against my will

At an age were I was unaware and powerless 

 

Things were done to me which were not in my best interest which limited me 

Other peoples believes impacted on my reality

The worse of it was I trusted them

I internalised my perceived faults

 

I lived in a prison of my own making 

But not anymore 

I can not spell can you tell?

Certificate U
Non-fiction
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Comments

Submitted by Nolan on

Your work is often very academic as in serious poetry, excellent as such and as more philosophical in nature. There is a place for everyone in poetry, the most concentrated and fantastical pure arts of writing.

Not to have you "categorised against my (your!) will! "

See you Rob! Nolan &

 

Submitted by valiswaverider on

I have studied taoist Philosophy for 20 years. It has a strong influence on me. For me logic and sentiment are not opposites but rather strengthen any argument. As a dylexic child I was categorised as stupid this had a profound effect upon my developing psyche. However with the exception of the last line which is personal this poem is really a lament againist Indoctrination which feeds us limitions which are not your own. It create a schizophrenic society which is unhappy with its self. I believe most people are imprisoned by self limitations without their knowledge, though education later in life I freed my self from the faulthoods I laboured under