Analysis of Nightmares Created

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Rushing with lightning speed,
To find a way to rid and end...
Permanently.
The existence of truth.
And the evidence providing proof,
Their fictioned smothered lives...
No longer can hide them,
Drowning in the rising hide tide of denial.

They have begun to ban books.
Unplugging to disconnect,
From the internet.
And demanding all colors be removed,
Unused from all crayon boxes...
In elementary schools.
With their own children prevented,
To see anyone of color...
Being represented as warriors or heros.
In videos, movies or on their TV screens.
That ensures,
Deception to delude and fiction truth...
Remains to stay betrayed forever.
Leaving the ones crazed and lost,
Without minds to use or found to find.
Done to prove,
There had been once a time...
Self inflicted ignorance,
And insanity to become addicted to it.
Was not a mission to achieve for so many,
As their destination and goal...
They defended and threatened,
To accomplish and claim sole ownership!

'This can not be,
Sought as a mission...
For those that mindless,
Defending their self inflicted ignorance.
As a way to protect,
Their lives to live kept fictioned.'

'Keep saying it.
Who knows?
Maybe this wish to dream,
Will one day have many...
Awaken to see,
A nightmare!

A nightmare,
They created.
Alone to condone.
With it admitted to own!
No one else wishes to borrow or lease.
Or...
Discovered it witnessed,
Them to be raging in jealousy and envy.'

'And...
How is it,
People picked and declared enemies...
Are the ones minding their own business.
Nowhere near the scene of the crime?
Yet provoked into participating.'

'I kept telling my own lieing eyes,
The same exact thing!'


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Poetic Form
Metre 101101 11011101 1000 001011 001000101 11101 110111 100010111010 1101111 11001 1010 0010110101 0111110 00101 11110010 1110110 100101100110 010010111111 101 0101010101 011101010 1001101 011111111 111 111101 1010100 0010010101011 110101011110 1101001 1010010 101001110 1111 11010 11110 01011010100 101101 111111 1101 11 101111 111110 01011 01 01 1010 01101 1101011 111101111 1 010110 111100100010 0 111 101001100 101101110 1101101 101010100 11101111 01011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,653
Words 342
Sentences 39
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 8, 23, 6, 6, 8, 6, 2
Lines Amount 59
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted by lpahtillah on February 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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