Not Us! But Them, Those And The Others

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



And here we are.
Debating to argue,
Who has the right to do the wrong thing done.
With an entitlement to prove,
In what direction...
A defended ignorance should take and move.

And here we are,
Professing a greatness.
Yet choosing to refuse,
How and who did what to achieve it.
Since those in fear of losing an image,
Wish more to be the reflection that deludes...
An idolized symbol created to worship,
To maintain a fiction that excludes...
The participation of an ethnic diversity.
With this done to remove the truth,
From history.

And here we are,
Achieving deception.
Removing books from schools.
To replace with fantasies.
Done and determine to make our children,
Defend their right to stay fools.
And here we are,
Facing the facts of our own actions taken.
With a making of excuses,
As to why people today are crazed.
Although not us.
But those others we declare,
Have begun to destroy a way of life.
A way of life,
Created by those...
Who seem to wish to want,
The times when barbarians lived in caves.

'How much more of this can we take?'

'How much more of what?'

'Reality.
And the truth of it.
It's all over the place.
What has happened to our reality?'

'Which one?
The one kept fictioned to delude?'

'Yeah.
That one.
What has removed it,
From our normal way of life?'

'The Sunlight!
And the evidence of it that proves,
A turning away from it...
Does not change.
Especially when becoming aware,
Of having a consciousness.
That comes to arrive to notice at dawn.'
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Written on August 03, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:37 min read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axbcbc Adxexfxfgxg AbhxbhAbxxdijjxxx x x gexg bx xbej xxexidx
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,479
Words 326
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 6, 11, 17, 1, 1, 4, 2, 4, 7

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