From Many Lessons
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
From the many lessons,
Available to all of us to learn.
Only one seems to have had,
More of an Impact...
That has kept us distracted.
We have been made creatures to feed,
A needed belief...
Our only purpose to live a blessed life to get,
Is to maintain our ability...
To continue serving a thoughtless selfishness.
Not all are observed to witness,
Heard to hear praying for more...
Than they have to deserve.
This worshipping becomes a normalcy.
In a democracy that teaches it first taught,
Entitlements received...
Are given without them earned.
For some to believe,
Belongs to them to do as they please.
Regardless who is left to leave,
Behind to identify...
As 'those' of the 'others'.
Too ethnic and expressive with their diversity.
And from the many lessons to us taught,
Only one becomes obvious to prioritized.
Bigotry.
Subdivided into...
Discrimination, racism.
And any division that describes,
Those who believe...
They should live their lives,
Looking for ways to identify themselves...
Than others who have yet to achieve,
An image that has successfully...
Distorted the truth throughout history!
And from the many lessons,
We all have yet to learn.
Is a history of beliefs being today revealed.
Attempts to keep them,
Concealed and hidden.
Has effectively begun,
To shine the light on the very ones...
Afraid of the evidence and proof of truth.
They can not face to accept.
Yet...
Find reasons to blame and claim they do,
It is reality that has become a threat.
To their fiction to delude way of life.
Increasingly tormenting them,
With facts attacking their denials.
Although...
Acts of betrayal.
To endorse this and enforce.
As they support the funding of it done.
Can no one else take the credit,
For destroying a greatness to once have had.
But themselves.
Displayed.
In the clearest of vivid view.
Here. There. And everywhere.
Kept to keep false images of themselves...
Worshipped and praised to idolize.
Symbolically!
'Your comments made are untrue.'
That too may be true.
But...
Isn't the proof in the pudding?
'I don't know.
But I will admit of having a craving for it!'
Then you are right.
'About what?'
My eyes lie!
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Written on September 09, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,148 |
Words | 445 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 13, 12, 9, 19, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1 |
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