Are We Judged?

Are we judged? Are we being judged:

Who are the judges? What are we being judged in, on and for?

Is it all in our heads? An extrapolation of guilty feelings?

Is there no independent arbiter? How will or can we know?

We can’t [know]. That would be knowledge that is not available to us

Is the suspicion of being judged a problem? Unsettling! Yes, I agree

Unsettling to the point of paranoia? That’s a totally different kettle of fish

Fish? What have they got to do with the subject? That woman’s eyes

Looked kind of “fishy”, and that man held my gaze a second too long

Don’t mock me. A second can last forever. No! No! No! I’m not paranoid

Just because I think things are happening doesn’t mean they're not

I never liked that Trump guy either, can’t understand why more than one

American voted for him, let alone 75 million. Now, tell me I’m wonky

Distraught, lead astray. It was a person with a gun, usually is. Wait

Where am I? New Zealand: a missing semi-colon at the bottom of the world

Semi-colons are useful, I remember proclaiming whilst in a drunken state

You?!? Yes [embarrassed] Where am I? Where was I? A person with a gun

[didn’t I write an impassioned article about that?] Yes. I did. 50 dead in Christchurch

It happened. A lone killer with guns, at two sites. The death of national innocence

Don’t worry here it happens all the time. Gums and babies are our religion

The question is, are we being judged? It needs tweaking, rearranging, and re-stated

Why are we NOT being judged? I’m busy judging others. They don’t fit the mould

Look out of shape. No doubt, they feel the same about me. Are we judged?

We judge others. Karma. That which comes around goes around

A trifle personal, don’t you think?

In the temple of poetry

The tower of song

We tell the truth

Can’t go wrong

Can we?