Resignation
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Undesirable yet inevitable the time comes.
When that which has been done,
Runs out if approval and acceptance.
A resignation to admit,
Changes can not be prevented.
Like the past, present and future,
Has a purpose to introduce.
To eventually produce,
A movement to find useless...
Those standards and routines.
Gone to once represent a way of life.
Too many living in these fast paced days.
Refuse to let go,
Of their old ways fading.
Finding themselves,
In the midst of conflicts to defend...
Habits to have them.
While protesting against,
A future that has begun.
Leaving them behind.
With minds incapable to accept and adapt,
To that which is done.
Those yesterdays have had their place.
And the present to live it,
Is not permanently to stay.
Nor is the future guaranteed to anyone,
To remain that way unchanged.
Regardless who declares,
A power is theirs to do as they wish!
They too will face being replaced.
Since the only thing any of us,
Is blessed to have to say is ours is life.
And the experience to live it,
On a temporary basis.
As an invitation to visit.
Not to permanently sit as if...
That time for us will never come,
To resign to find...
We have been forced to move on!
'The time has come
For me to acknowledge,
The past to have lived it,
Makes me no exception to expect...
What I had done to do,
Today is not accepted!'
'Your acknowledgement is appreciated.
Now...
How much time do you need,
For your mind to sit and marinate in it?'
'I...
Have made mistakes.
And as a child living many decades ago...
I...'
'Unneeded are repeated explanations.
Or survivor stories of your life to have had.
Just an answer to the question.
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 10, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,588 |
Words | 299 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 8, 11, 17, 6, 4, 4, 3 |
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