Disappearing Deceptions

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Who is it that teaches,
With it loudly heard to preach.
That racism, division and conflicts,
Are the main benefits...
To retain a healthy economy.

Who is it that has so many believe,
That a society based strickly...
On a system thriving on capitalism,
And materialistic greed to feed it...
Can have a few dictate,
How an ethnic diverse democracy...
Should be better represented,
If truth and reality...
Was eliminated from this image.
And banned to delude,
A fiction to present...
Appeasing to those pretentious.

Who is it that has twisted the minds,
Of the many who have chosen to define...
A greatness achieved,
Had been accomplished...
By those sitting on their behinds.
Mesmerized done to hypnotize,
Thoughtless unconscious minds...
Into an irreversible denial.

And...
Kept to perceive,
A power to grab it and this achieved.
Will not have an adverse effect,
On their own quality of life.
With it done to expect,
An economy...
Indebted to credit.

And money exchanged from hands,
Of every ethnic race there is.
Will continue to exist.
With people proving to have,
Neither competence nor common sense.
Or intelligence to prove,
An understanding to comprehend...
How a diverse society,
Based in the depths...
Of materialistic wishes.
Can still remain to stay that way.

When a few who have fictioned visions.
Focused upon a power to control,
Over those they depend.
In an interdependentness.
Yes!
An interdependentness!
Continuing this to observe and witness,
A mindset infectiously fed on image.
The appearance of it.
And the color of democracy.
Clearly disappearing of deception.

'We protest and oppose,
This 'coloring' of our way of life.'

'I see.
And your destruction,
Satisfies your right to do what?
Beg, steal or borrow?
With a power to demand that from who?
Puff, the magic dragon?'
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Scheme AXXXB CDXEXBXBFXXG HXIXHXHD XCIJKJBL XMXXXXNBXMX XDNAXAGFEBO XK BOLXXO
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,797
Words 365
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 5, 12, 8, 8, 11, 11, 2, 6

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