Hands Out Of Pockets



Hands out of pockets,
Still seen doing what?
More of the same.
To claim promises forthcoming.
Yet none from them made concrete comes.

When people like this insist,
They will never give up their struggle...
To prevent looking as if cuckoo and quacks.
They fight back against the truth.
Proving their minds,
Once to have had split in halves.
With both sides incapable to use.

Yet...
All will claim to have fantastic genius brains.
But...
Where are they to keep?
When the money begins draining,
From hands out of pockets...
To have had this believed by followers,
Tricked, duped and deceived...
That a genius dressed to impress,
Can actually perform this delusion.
Although...
Without the money to address fiction,
With hands out their pockets and others...
To fleece and leach.
Is a knuckle dragging reality from a past.

A past from which those endorse to follow.
Pray and wish to dream come back.
With a pledging their loyalty and allegiance.
As they sit to fantasize in a romanticize daze,
A future of peace and nonstop progress!

'I don't get it.
What are those people doing?'

'Fighting for a past to have it back.
Then...
Observe and witness what they do next!'

'This is crazy.
They crossed the street...
To then fight with those,
Claiming the same thing wanted?'

'Wait.
Observe and witness what happens next.'

'Now...
Both sides are together shouting,
For peace and progress to have.
But without all the talk,
Of immigrants, ethnic diversity.
Racism, division.
Or the teaching of truth and its history!'

'This nonsense is crazy.'

'Soon it will be normalized.'

'How so?'

'More and more have begun to discuss,
Their sexual preferences.
And bragging between themselves,
As to which race takes pleasing the other...
More seriously!'

'What on Earth is going on?'

'Lies to tell and deception to sell it,
Discreetly kept.
With a mutual sharing,
Of pleasurable benefits.'

'Okay.
But what about those standards to value?'

'Oh...
Those?
These days?
They are being censored and banned.
By those pretentiously self righteous.
And paid to portray themselves,
As living correct and perfect human beings.
When giving those images,
Behind pulpits and podiums.
With speeches and sermons given.
As if visiting Earth from an alternate Universe!'
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Written on September 25, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 25, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

2:18 min read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXCD XXXXXXX XXBXCAEXFGHGEXX HIXJF KC IXL MXNX XL XCXXMGM M X OXPXM X KXCX XX HNJXOPXXDGX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,244
Words 462
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 5, 7, 15, 5, 2, 3, 4, 2, 7, 1, 1, 5, 1, 4, 2, 11

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