Self-Righteous..... Poem by RIC BASTASA

double standard and
self-righteous
that is what you are

you babble about
what is moral and what is not
and you preach

you can do what you
want and she cannot?
you cut the neck of
your conscience
and you say you are
free
but her umbilical cord
is still tied
to what tradition says
to what the code of morality
dictates

you justify you rationalize
all these and you keep on saying
i can do what i want
i will be answering for that
yet she can't...