Analysis of Yesterday's Treasured Beliefs
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
The World has changed.
And kept to treasure the same beliefs,
To use as a standard as a normalcy?
No longer exist.
Regardless who does what.
With a persistence wished,
For its return.
To refuse and ignore this reality,
Has got for many to be...
A painful truth to face.
Even in the midst...
Of those in positions,
Incapable to replace...
These days with yesterdays.
Gone.
With attempts to use bombs to destroy,
Segments of the human race to eliminate.
God's creations.
To restore ancient beliefs.
Will only begin,
Their own sorrow and grief.
That reduces them to remorse.
And unforgivable humiliation.
With a doing to realize it to them shown,
There is only One God and One God...
Alone.
Who has created and owns this Earth.
Without an ego to serve,
A narcissistic ability to ruin God's doing!
'What on Earth,
Is in the minds...
Of these warring criminals?'
'The delusion of power.
And the addiction of wealth to keep it.'
'Away from Who and What?'
'Fiction to delude is an addiction.
And when money to obtain it,
Becomes the drug to maintain...
Delusions that remain to worship?
The only thing left to grab,
Is power over others to have.'
'For who and what?
And for how long to continue on?'
'Until those who grab power,
Become themselves the hunted!
To then declare,
Them to be victimized.
By enemies they have created.
History has a way to repeatedly escalate,
From an increasing to feed...
A needed greed by the ones,
Who ultimately are discovered...
To have deceived each other.'
'I should read and learn more history!'
'I recommend and suggest,
The reading of Shakespeare.
Whatever it was he knew,
Takes less time than the Bible...
To interpret the occurrences,
Of today's events.'
'Shakespeare?
I'm not into theater and that nonsense.'
'To Be.
Or not to Be.
All of it is nothing BUT theater.
From one stage of it to another!
Regardless of political affiliation.
Status to have it or religious beliefs.
All of it is theater.
With someone discovered,
To have deceived someone else.
For no other purpose.
But to feed a selfish need to greed.'
'It's more complicated than that.'
'Oh?
How?
I was told,
When I had been much younger,
To keep it simple.
Only those who declare themselves,
To be wise and intelligent.
And alone can fix everything?
Are the culprits to avoid...
A life to live it messed up!'
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Metre | 0111 011100101 11101010100 11001 010111 100101 1101 101001110 1111011 010111 10001 110010 010011 11110 1 101111101 10101011010 1010 1011001 11001 111001 10101101 001000010 10101101111 111011011 01 110100111 0111011 00100100110110 111 1001 1110100 0010110 0001011111 011101 1010111010 01101011 0101101 010101110 0101111 110101011 1101 011110101 0111110 0101010 1101 111100 110011010 1001011010010 1101011 0101101 110001010 1101110 111011100 101001 01011 101111 1111010 101000100 10101 1 11011000110 11 1111 1111101100 111111010 010101000010 10111101001 1111100 11010 110111 111010 111010111 1110011 1 1 111 1111110 11110 10110101 11100100 0011110 1010101 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,319 |
Words | 502 |
Sentences | 63 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 14, 3, 2, 1, 6, 2, 10, 1, 6, 2, 11, 1, 10 |
Lines Amount | 84 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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