Mimi - Mona Poetry: Cruel Intentions

“People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge.” ― Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

“Don't be too busy judging others that you forget to attend to your personal flaws.” ― Edmond Mbiaka

©Cruel Intentions

Mimi Wolske

All Rights Reserved

I

S/He failed to follow their frail, hard hearts

into the fallow, unhallowed ground.

II

The insecure, obscure,

insincere souls,

poisoned by their

self-appointed and shared

sense of injustice

and the sheer unfairness

of their invisibility,

chose to leave their mark

in the form of a wound

and a lasting scar.

Intent? To blame the innocent

of untrue offenses.

Mothers warned their children

that most accusers

lay the blame on someone else

when it is they themselves

who have done said crime

—will do it again

(to others before

it is done to them)

so they can experience

self-righteous justification.

III

The purpose of such

furor (of what Bellow,

after Wyndham Lewis,

called the Moronic Inferno)?

That through their

judgement without

evidence and without

questions to accused,

the innocent,

the unsuspecting victim

 should feel

like a war criminal

and find himself,

or herself,

pilloried before going up

in shameful ashes,

to disappear,

and to be shunned by all

after their all-out

—covert

—public attack

on his/her character and words.

Sorry, kin and kindred.

S/He doesn’t.

Acquaintances are more

faithful than you.

The character and words

in question need no

defending to the intentional

misreading by the malicious

scandalmongers

who chose sealed doors

to their social media war room,

that excluded their victim,

for their private plans and plots

to shroud unsuspecting friends

with their bitterness and lies.

Depressing is the knowledge

their complaints are

vexatious and

faite de mauvaise foi;

they are too much

in a conspiratorial climax

to see the trees in

the painting of the forest.

And, too, a continued

ironic spectacle from those

once considered intelligent...

they still take hostage

those considered his/her friends

and acquaintances,

and continue

to take up their

contemptuous poison

ensuring their attacks

are hidden from the innocent.

IV

Beware all who happily share

your joy and possessions

freely and without expectations.

There will be repercussions

from those close but whom

are unable to see it is

their own discontent.