Double Standards

The rich can go broke because they were taking risks, but you are irresponsible

You should have planned and anticipated that things would go wrong

The cruel can enact violence in public and without restraint, but you should control yourself

That is the way things are, so you are the only one who can harm yourself by reality

The greedy can make a mess of their lives and the masses, but you are responsible for your actions

How dare you call into question the actions of the sacred when you have nothing?

The privileged are figuring out their lives and finding their passions, but you are lazy

Why do you think you can rest when you should be serving their contemplation time?

The takers deserve their ill-gotten gains for playing the game they created

But you should be humbled by the experience of giving and never receiving, or never enough

After centuries of being inoculated with such standards and beliefs as these

Sit back and marvel at the horror of a world that was created, and weep for what could have been

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