Pharisee and Sinner

Don’t look down on me,
    you hypocrite!

I am the part of you
    you will not acknowledge;
the part of you that has
    impulses you cannot control;
the part of you that feels
    emotions you cannot express;
the part of you that gets
    everything wrong.

You stand over me
all enshrouded in your
    cloak of self-righteousness,
like a whited sepulchre
    full of dark crooks and nannies
concealing secrets
which come out sideways
in criticism and judgement of me,
while you continue to deny
    the presence of such “sins” in your self!

I am the part of you
    you don’t want to know.

Open your eyes -

    clean out your ears.

You and I are two sides
    of the same coin!

        See me, acknowledge me,
        sit at table and eat with me,
        make me part of your life -
        so we may play and grow
            - together!

       © Valerie Laura
       20 November 2009 (edited)