We Are Not Things framed by a doorway

[Wjames]

Hey, it's okay.  The "you" are the friends I mentioned in the 4th line, "Emperors disguised as friends."

I purposefully wrote "I was not bred for you to judge as I atop/Scaffolds stand in scarlet red" to keep the 4-8-7 meter.

"We Are Not Things" is a line from Mad Max, and "she" is the woman who first started declaring that in the movie.

I purposefully left out the articles to both keep the meter and to parallel "We Are Not Things" by saying "I am not ____" without the "a", despite it being grammatically incorrect.  The line reads "I am not thing, but thanks to I learned to smile [and] shut up..."

Thanks for your critique though!  Do you have any ideas on how I could work in articles while keeping the 4-8-7 pattern?

I don't know what you mean by the 4-8-7 pattern. Could you explain?