Judgment Is The Enemy Poem by Uriah Hamilton

Judgment is the enemy
Of love and friendship:
Will you judge someone you love?
Can you maintain a friendship after condemnation?

Believing one has the right
To criticize or condemn another
Is unfairness and unkindness to both the criticized
And the criticizer:

It is showing harshness to the criticized
And missing the opportunity to see oneself
In a constructive mirror for the criticizer.

When you judge another,
You lay the snare of hypocrisy for yourself:
Will you never fall into the same mistakes?
Will you never enter the same loneliness
Or place of loss confusion as the person you judge?
Will your life situations protect you forever from never stealing
Or lying or coveting? Do you have a guarantee not to be human?

Gracious Creator of mercy,
Divine Inspiration of brotherhood and sisterhood,
Let us live for the sake of friendliness and love,
Allow us to view everyone as a beautiful work in progress
As we hope people will gently view us the same.

May our eyes be open wide to see the good in others
And may we softly turn our gaze from seeing someone’s mistakes
As their defining qualities.

May we truly trust everyone’s finest moment is yet to arrive.