Don't Take This Personally



Don't get upset.
Or become offended to take my comments,
Said to you...
As meant intentionally,
To be without motivation.
Vacant of inspiring incentive.

You have come a long way,
From being the dimmest light in darkness.
To become easier to understand and find,
Potential.
A potential once thought impossible,
To achieve.
Yet lie to have you believe,
It was near and close within your reach.

But now that it has begun to dawn on you,
Not to feel threatened by common sense.
Used.
And by others to seem magically done.
As if mysteriously for them to accomplish.
You...
And by yourself have awaken,
With a thought you admit is your own.

'Oh...
I'm not offended by your comments at all.
I had been too afraid to acknowledge,
The occurrence had been a painless...
And effortless endeavor to accomplish.
I was told it would ultimately create,
My asking questions.
Never satisfied by answers I am given.'

Well...
That's not a rumor.
Whoever told you that,
Probably had been wounded by fiction.
And when confronted by truth told to hear,
Felt victimized...
When their eyes and ears opened.
Finding too much reality free of charge.

'What do you mean... FREE!?'

Truth and the reality of it is free.
People only pay to be duped and hoodwinked.
With a crediting to indebt themselves,
To delusion and the expense of denial.
Look around.
Conflict, division, hatred and racism,
Are creations meant to deceive the mindless!

Check it out,
Those poor to assume...
They were born to live unfortunate lives
Remain to stay beggers.
Providing jobs for the ones,
Keeping them to feel that way.
While using their grief as comic relief!

'That's not true.'

Okay.
Name one thing you bought,
Had a label on it that said...
MADE WITH UTMOST HONESTY.
GUARANTEED TO SATISFY AND END,
UNWARRANTED SUSPICIONS.

'That wouldn't be profitable.'

To who or whom?
The crooks and thieves?
Oh...
And don't take this personally.
All of us.
You me and everyone,
Are encouraged to be corrupted.
That's why many fear to hear truth.
Or have it taught to their children.

Take abortion!
Today...
Abortion is being outlawed everywhere.
But guns to buy are purposely meant,
To kill people. End lives!
You can not call this craze, madness.
It's a profitable making mental disease.
Defended as an entitlement!

'What are we doing to ourselves?'

Loving the hypocrisy.
And the pomp and circumstance of ignorance.
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Written on April 15, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 15, 2023

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,372
Words 496
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 1, 7, 7, 1, 6, 1, 9, 8, 1, 2

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