Self Respect

*Note* This poem is about all different forms of self disrespect. It based on what I've seen around Dublin or what I've seen my frineds and people I know act like. Some of this might offend some people I know, if so sorry, but like I said in the introduction post, These poems ain't ment to.

Please, cover yourself up
You’re showing no respect for yourself
There is no need dress like that, you’re going to the doctor
It’s not like you’re even going to pull someone there

Please, stop being so promiscuous
You’re showing no respect for yourself
You are only 13 and already you have kissed more than ten people, most of them being girls.
But still you get offended whenever someone calls you a lesbian or bi-sexual.
You kiss all your friends but still you have a boyfriend.
If you want to kiss girls, do it when you are single or tell him straight up you’d rather be with girls

Please, cover yourself up
You’re showing no respect for yourself.
You are fourteen years old and you are dressing like a prostitute
You’re just an attention seeker who no one wants to see or hear about.


Please, don’t go back on your word
You’re showing no respect for yourself.
You’ve told me on two different topics you’d never do it but yet you have done one since and are planning on doing the other just because your boyfriend does it.
If anything happens I’m not gonna help you, you have to learn the hard way.
I just hope you don’t do the one thing that’s left just because he does it too.
You’re just giving into peer pressure.

Please, get changed out of your pyjamas before you go out somewhere
You’re showing no respect for yourself.
There’s not caring how you look and just looking like a knacker.

Please, stop making up lies to make yourself look better
You’re showing no respect for yourself.
If your friends really like you they’ll love you for who you are
They wouldn’t love you for who you appear to be

Please, just show respect for yourself.

By Seán Kelly