Choosing Battles
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
The ones who choose,
Their battles to win...
Against the right people.
To prove with confidence,
This choice to do?
May win.
Again and again.
Always lose the support,
Of the ones who once thought...
Them worthy of endorsing them,
As thoughtful human beings.
To discover,
They would be better to abandon...
Not only this thought.
But them as well to leave.
On a ship to believe,
Could be prevented from sinking!
People like this,
To unconsciously trust...
May win their picked battles.
But to identify,
Who their enemies are to make them?
Has never shown to have been,
A kept defense...
Against an image upheld by ignorance!
An image to fiction in minds to cement.
And..
A trusted ignorance kept imaged,
To thrive upon it to nourish?
Eventually defeats to beat itself.
Like no one else can do!
History proves this.
Time and time to repeat.
Over and over again.
As if the doing is sought to seek...
Victoriously!
'Where are you all going?
Why aren't you not staying to praise us?'
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 13, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on January 13, 2022
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Scheme | XABCDAEXFGXXXFHHI JXXXGAXCX XDXXD JXEXB IX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 986 |
Words | 218 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 9, 5, 5, 2 |
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