Yesterday's Treasured Beliefs



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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Submitted by lpahtillah on March 16, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XABXCXX BBDXEDXX XFEAXXXGHXHIXJ IXX KL C GLXMXX CX KNXXNFOEPK B XQXRXX QX BBKKGAKPXXO X XXXKRXXJXM
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,319
Words 502
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 7, 8, 14, 3, 2, 1, 6, 2, 10, 1, 6, 2, 11, 1, 10

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