Judgement Calls (Heart Break Suite)

Judgement Calls is a thought provoking piece with a harmonious end goal. There are nearly eight billion people on the planet. And not one of us have the right to pass decree on another. In the words of Walt Whitman before me—Be curious, not judgmental. The following verse echoes his sentiment.

Listen to Judgement Calls by Richard Charles Stevens (Heart Break Suite)

Listen to Can’t Take The Heart Break by Project One

Judgement calls
I let it ring off
For it is not my place
To cast aspersions on another
Contrasting versions will always exist
Long lasting burdens explore ways to hit
Recasting those who are deemed not to fit
Cancelling shows before woke tabloid hits
Trending the end of the line for those owed to committal
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For every rosehip
A thistle
All opposing
Swift dismissal
Chosen lords adored no more
All effects extrajudicial
Making it official
Where we stand with regards to those damned
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One side of the story told
Gory details over mulled
Flea sale inventory sold
No lamb left on the shank
.
One side of the story told
Gory details over mulled
Flea sale inventory sold
No lamb left on the shank
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How many lies have been darned into kaftans
Drawing a blank
As to why ranged attacks land
How many eyes
Narrow sights to play taxman
Entrap ransack then subtract
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Should we waste time
At the grapevine
Then our ears shall surely burn
Should we see attack as playtime
Then we’re handicapped to learn
For every time the worm turns
There’s a burden clinging tight to the only stitch in nine designed to save time
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Hurting for curtsy
We thirst no great mercy
Our views topsy-turvy
Thoughts scattered like birdseed
Deterring enlighten as our earthly journeys fall about the wayside
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(Hurting for curtsy
We thirst no great mercy
Our views topsy-turvy
Thoughts scattered like birdseed)
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It really is as heedless as it seems
(Topsy)
(Topsy)
And not to mention needlessly obscene
(Turvy)
(Turvy)
To walk a line
Of cruel design
And see the world through mortal eyes
When more to life besides resides in dream
(Dream)
As thoughts arise
Be more concise in finding where importance lies
And authorise a more abiding narrative
(Dream)
For narrowed eyes that paralyse
Go only where the sparrow flies
And not a line of flight be multifaceted
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Who are we assuming
We’re disproving an illusion
With no clue as to the true delusion looming
Grooming those who chose to listen
Ruses gloating no permission
To disputing disposition
Owed to visions of derision
Well within our means
To see forbidden
Well within our means
To see forbidden
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There exists a sanctuary
Serene when dreamed emphatically
Where atrophy is baptistry
And we can bleed abstractedly
Relieved from our anatomies
We candidly announce
Our essence more theatrically
With blessing of devout
Fracture stress then levels out
And we can scream our devils out
.
We can scream our devils out
We can scream our devils out
We can scream our devils out
Devils out
Devils out
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We can scream our devils out
We can scream our devils out
We can scream our devils out
(Devils out)
(Devils out)
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We can scream our devils out
We can scream our devils out
We can scream our devils out
Devils out
Devils out
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Judgement calls
Alas I’ll never ring it back
Listen to a song of right or wrong and sing it back
Never been my place
To see hastened disgrace
When the nose on my face knows the crack
(Crack)
Can smell the rosehips opening
To focus in on broken wings
While brokering no notion to attack
Exact no fury
Sack the jury
Tell no tale
Not fit to sail
Live
Let live
Permit to see forgiven the forgetful
See how our misgivings can be mean and disrespectful
Refocus the onus on selves
For a second
For only the lonely
Can openly beckon
An end to the reckoning
Settle into second skin
Find a thread unthreatening
Stride ahead
To welcome in
Every motion seconding
Devotion to a second stint
In measure
Non-judgemental
For it’s not our nose’s place
To spite our faces
Or else
Next time
Judgement calls
We might well take it
And a heart is only half that when we break it
A heart is only half that when we break it
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