Freedom Of Speech In William Shakespeare's Poem 'Elie Me Dying'

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APOLOGY NOT AN OPTION
It was your desire to alienate me, but I prayed and God made me strong enough to stand up to the betrayal and move on without you

You never called or tried to apologize for the ugly things you said, for me, even though they were spoken in anger, I have to believe those words were spoken in sincerity, even though you deny their intensity

All it would have taken was two simple words,
I’m sorry or I apologize, but your arrogance and your ego meant more to you, so you prohibited that effort

After all I did for you, out of the love I felt for you, you disguised your hate for me and lied when I questioned the love you claimed to have for me

But I saw how you really felt and I hung on for as long as I could, in the hopes
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When does freedom of speech, become a problem, dehumanizing me or my beliefs, just because you feel the need to force on me a sense of humor, not shared by me

DO YOU SEE ME LAUGHING

I detest your translations, even the suggestions that
I comply with your disrespect of what I hold to be sacred, crossing lines, poking fun in an attempt to diminish the sum of my existence

Why, is this necessary, where is your charity, your benevolence towards my humanity, causing me to lash out, choosing to die for my cause, thereby becoming a martyr for my religious beliefs

You continue to stand strong in your freedom to offend, all for personal gain, regardless of whose lives are jeopardized and shamed by your folly; I think you go too far with your pretentious displays

Designed to inflame my mind and insult my sensibilities, does that not, boldly speak to your

Love towards my people
COMPASSION
You can’t effectively live in the past, yet your future is contingent on the past, giving you insight, as well as giving you the ability to live in the present that was created, by the past that was experienced,

With the hope for a future that is better than the past of your experiences, which in this present has not been achieved, yet I keep

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