Analysis of Selective Sensitivities

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Among the many living,
These confusing...
Upside-down to turn around.
Just to have it their way days.
With attempts to chase truth away.
Are finding themselves,
On a mission...
They refuse to admit,
Is most difficult to do.
Since truth to delude and fiction it,
Includes and does not eliminate...
Those with kept ethnic sensitivities.
To believe themselves,
Immune from truth.
Or its reality.

God is the creator of all living things.
Man-made is discrimination.
Separation of races.
And the labelling to place on human faces.
Man-made is division.
Bigotry and racism.
For the purpose to protect,
Insecure sensitivities.
Done to believe and this to accept,
Some are born more than human beings.
While others born blessed,
To experience their blessings...
Are less to neglect.
With a showing of disrespect.

We all should love our heritage and ancestry.
Without exception.
And yet...
There are many who still made to believe,
Those disparage,
Neglected and disenfranchised.
Should not complain,
Of being mistreated.
Treated as if not also human beings.

And when this is done to mention,
Publicly to bring attention to it.
There are those who become offended,
By the truth to hear it openly addressed.
Loud come out the voices heard,
Protecting their kept sensitivities.
As if others diverse in their ethnicities,
Are not deserving to express...
How truth kept suppressed.
Has been effectively used,
To claim them to be the cause and reason...
Why the quality and way of life,
Has begun to slide downhill.
By the ones who have climbed on top.
With the freedoms,
They have been taught to perceive...
Their entitlements to achieve and get.
Were given to them exclusively.
Leaving truth and reality,
Displayed everywhere in its ethnic diversity.
Is not what God meant to intend.
And the ones who attempt,
Truth to reveal as is to see.
Are threatening a deluded reality.
As if descendants,
Of a fiction to protect and keep...
Defended from fading away!

'How dare you attack us with truth.'

'Which would you rather have to live?
The reality of your self destruction?'

'Well...
At least we are prepared to accept,
What we choose to expect it!'

'And you claim those like me,
Are the cause and reason for this?
Your unrelenting nonsense.'

'Yes.
Of course.
Who else can we blame,
For our sensitivities being what they are?'

'This is a mystery.
Dramaticized throughout history.
Isn't it!?'

'There you go.
Always attempting to reverse,
A misinterpreting of a truth.
With a spreading of lies.
To revise our version of life to have it lived!'

'God?
What is the point?'

'Now you ask.
As if time we have,
Is yours to waste like this!'


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,628
Words 545
Sentences 66
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 15, 14, 9, 27, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 2, 3
Lines Amount 91
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 157
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Written on September 18, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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