Guilt riddles your mind with dis ease
eats at your heart and cripples you,
paralyses to become a blithering mess.
Wake up, get over it, you did your best!
Guilt is such a waste of time and energy
If something is wrong fix it and apologise
Getting hung up about things is unhealthy
Don’t waste your life get mental respite!
Guilt is a very western term
Asian’s don’t seem to use it
Imposed by those in power
to keep the masses controlled
Yet those who made those rules
abused and lied coz they could
They have no guilt or conscious
using the system for gratification
So make your peace in your own way
then resolve never to do it again!
Or at least for a reasonable time
until you develop better habits!
DP: Guilty
aroused 
Politicians have no conscience or concept of guilt. They like to blame everyone else for all the ills. Most never looking at themselves. The way they spend other peoples money is criminal.
I think some media folks also fit into the category of having little respect for guilt always reporting opinions instead of facts.
Personally… guilt is a very destructive.
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it’s super destructive, especially when we ignore it as you said so well Jules!
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Guiltiness is a bad default , a true sickness excepted in some cases .
Complimentes for your poem, Kate.
Love ❤
Michel
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True! Getting hung up on things is wasteful. Thanks for this.
I have an article that approaches this in a similar fashion. You could check it out https://wordpress.com/post/emmanuellove356165818.wordpress.com/12
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Hmmm!!! may I know if it is in relation to the topic?
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True dat…all of dat…about guilt. And I’ve needed the reminder, so thank you!
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Yes! Guilt is almost always a waste of emotional energy. If we’ve done something we know was wrong, then simply apologize, learn from our mistake, and move on. No need to carry the guilt at all!
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Asians have the inscrutable face, you’d never know- love the sentiment in this – get your self together
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The feeling for guilt continuously gnaws your mind. It takes a long time for me to make peace with that!
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we all need to let go or it eats us inside out, it’s plain unhealthy, such a waste!
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I’d rather be at peace then having guilt for the deeds and misdeeds I done….
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Great piece. Guilt is something of a plague in the mind. But often that guilt is unwarranted yet we are conditioned to believe in feeling guilty even for living or surviving.
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