"Righteous Anger"

 

"Fire" by David Chapman

because you yell the loudest   

TYPE IN ALL CAPS    

divide and pontificate with provocation  

you lay claim to justification    

you demean those who disagree    

through a false sense of superiority    

you lash out with vindictiveness    

choosing to injure and belittle    

you suck others into your fallacies    

with endless word manipulations    

you deride and insult    

to defend your flawed and mistaken reasoning    

you rationalize your anger and hatred    

by looking at everyone    

but yourself    

you are mean    

you are cruel    

you love no one    

this is your failure    

your loss    

your inability that wounds    

your harshness that kills    

your unhappiness that warps and destroys    

so scream out your      

righteous anger    

louder, louder, louder    

until you become hoarse    

until fatigue forces you to pause    

until you must be silent    

then listen to the echoes of your loneliness    

Copyright 2012 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman

 

"Positive Energy"

                Technology brings us possibilities. I sit at a keyboard, blank page before me, and write down my thoughts and beliefs knowing that I will transmit my ideas around the world with one click. What will I say? Who will I reach? What impact will I have?

                The wall technology builds between us allows invisibility. Through this anonymous distance, I can wound. I can easily divide humanity into otherness. Will I denigrate? Put down and pull apart? Can I spew out cruelty? Chip away and minimize the hopes and dreams of another?     

                Or will I stay true to my inner core? Can I thrive by crafting kindness? Can I blossom because I grow towards gentleness and grace? Every day I deliberately decide to nurture and nourish. I hone down my words to a spiritual force of positive

energy.

 Copyright 2019 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman

  

                 

"Righteous Anger"

 

because you yell the loudest   

TYPE IN ALL CAPS    

divide and pontificate with provocation  

you lay claim to justification    

you demean those who disagree    

through a false sense of superiority    

you lash out with vindictiveness    

choosing to injure and belittle    

you suck others into your fallacies    

with endless word manipulations    

you deride and insult    

to defend your flawed and mistaken reasoning    

you rationalize your anger and hatred    

by looking at everyone    

but yourself    

you are mean    

you are cruel    

you love no one    

this is your failure    

your loss    

your inability that wounds    

your harshness that kills    

your unhappiness that warps and destroys    

so scream out your      

righteous anger    

louder, louder, louder    

until you become hoarse    

until fatigue forces you to pause    

until you must be silent    

then listen to the echoes of your loneliness    

Copyright 2012 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman