Analysis of Reflecting Reality

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Denial?
Seems to have had run out of space.
To accommodate,
Free nonpayment occupants.
Crowding up and in the minds.
Of those defending their positions.
In the hope what they do to themselves,
Makes clear they will stay away...
From anything to do,
With using common sense.
A common sense they fear could threaten,
Their full support and endorsement given...
To an ignorance created to make it,
Everyone's duty to feel obligated to destroy...
An accepted vision of their way of life,
Purposely being diminish to fade...
By the rising colorizing of their image of it.

'We object to this replacement nonsense!'

'We object to this acceptance,
Of a nonwhite uprising.
We...
Are the ones,
That should be kept worshipped.
Our delusions to fiction,
Had been our creation.
Now...
Our mental instabilities,
Can not be ignored for what they are.'

'Not intending to be disrespectful or rude.
But...
Where have you been?
To not notice the effectiveness,
That has reflected the reality...
Of all our lives living in a unique,
And highly diversified society?'

'That has nothing to do,
With removing symbols we idolize.
Or the fact our pretensions to charade them,
In masquerade.
Are being faded away.
To leave us feeling insecure about ourselves.'

'Symbols to idolize and worship,
Is a deceiving of a reality...
That has many left in mental conflict.'

'Oh?
So you are saying,
We are the ones crazed by our own beliefs?'

'No.
I'm not saying that at all.
However...
There is something about truth,
And the reality of it displayed to observe?
Is without words needed.
To reveal the evidence and proof,
Of its existence few can miss!'

'Here we go with these liberal explanations!'


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,683
Words 349
Sentences 40
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 17, 1, 10, 7, 6, 3, 3, 8, 1
Lines Amount 56
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on August 17, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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