Another Meaningful Lesson

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Another meaningful lesson.
Worthy enough and eventful to teach.
That should leave many observing,
Witnessing to see.
Without hearing heard sermons,
Preached continuously.
About the cost it pays to ignore the changes,
Taking place around the World.
Affecting the air we breathe.
And dangerous storms.
Increasingly becoming a threat,
To the birds and bees and all humanity.

And yet these repeated occurrences,
Are thought to be temporary.
To go year after year to be ignored.
With a doing to reject and not accept,
There is something done we humans do...
Can not be that serious,
God and Mother Nature...
Will eventually fix,
What the Earth is going through.
And all we have to do is continue routines.
Like movies to watch,
On wide high definitioned...
Escape created screens.
Will end happily when the sound of music,
Rising in the background orchestrated.
With sweetened melodies.
Coming to relieve us,
From threatening tragedies.
As we sit to dismiss,
The truth and realities of our lives to be...
Just another lesson as seen on TV.
That has nothing to do with a way of life.
Leaving many living to believe,
What they see to observe...
Couldn't possibly happen to them.
Since they live,
In entirely different neighborhoods.
Than those affected losing everything.
Permanently.

'The hills are alive,
With the sound of music.
Let's watch that again.
I love how they escaped from threats.
And danced to sing joyfully,
On that mountaintop.
Without fearing anything to worry about!'

'That's just a movie.
A MOVIE!'

'And you...
Are a negative delusional,
Balloon popping party pooper.'

'I'm a what?'

'Butterless popcorn chewer.'

'When are you going to realize,
Just how serious these times are we live?'

'I tell you what.
Why don't you close your mouth long enough.
And let me be the one to worry about,
How long you will live,
To have me listen to your nonsense.
But...
Before you do that,
Hand to me the remote.
And don't throw it!'

'And people believe,
We have a happy relationship.'

'Hand me the remote.
Those are lies you be telling.
To whomever believes them!'

'I remember the days,
When we were so much in love.
Remember?'

'The medication I now take,
Has shortened my memory.
And my doctor was right.'

'About what?'

'About how easy it will be,
To ignore certain people, respectfully.'

'You're joking, right?
Right?'

'Well...
Start laughing.
And give me time and a reason to think,
If what I said was a joke or not.
Give me the remote.
Geeessshhh!'
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Written on January 14, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on January 15, 2023

Modified by lpahtillah on January 15, 2023

2:38 min read
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Scheme XXABXBXCXXXB XBXXDEFXDGXCGHXIEIXBBXJXKLXAB LHXXBXM BB DXF N F XL NXMLXNXOX JX OAK XXF XBP BB PP XAXXOB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,465
Words 522
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 12, 29, 7, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 9, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 6

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