we've come to a time
where you wouldn't
speak the same way
to a teenage boy
than you would to
an elderly woman.
where you would
yell aggressively
at the teenage boy
trying to get you
to open the back door of the bus
so an old woman can get off
because you thought
it was him
who wanted to get off.
i know you should
respect your elders
but
why don't we respect everyone?
they say to respect your elders.
i'm sorry, but no.
i don't care how old you are
what you look like
your gender
race
nationality
sexuality
or mood you're in
you respect me
i respect you.
if that bus driver
had've known
it was in fact
an elderly woman
not a teenage boy
who wanted to get off the bus
would he have spoken
any differently?
would he have
opened the door
to let her off?
would he have kindly
replied with "okay"
or would he have treated her
like the teenage boy
yelling down the bus
why didn't you get off before?
why can't you respect everyone?
everyone deserves the same amount of respect.
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breathe ⇒ poetry
Poetryalexithymia (ah-lek-sah-THI-mee-ah) - inability to describe emotions in a verbal manner. " the best poems are written in the early morning when all you can see is darkness and your eyes are filled with tears " [aesthetic poems, stories through p...
