When?
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
When?
Who has it to have,
That kind of consciousness to know...
The when and why,
People decide what to do...
To like or dislike.
For reasons to give or not to others,
An explanation without expecting to be...
Scrutinized or interrogated.
To then change their minds.
As a personal decision.
Not to try to deny or disguise a choice made.
Are those charading an image,
To masquerade...
A power they fear,
Will lose an attempt to have many afraid...
To display their ethnicity.
And diversity to parade?
Or the fact the loss,
Of themselves nolonger idolized...
As immortal heros to adore?
Has status and prestige obtained to have it,
Drunkened their minds?
To accept and perceive themselves,
Warriors and heros to delude forevermore?
But...
There will come a time many will find,
Rules and laws to document...
How people should live.
How they should think and do that too.
Is the ultimate wish,
People dream to have enforced...
Upon their experience of living life to get!
Since...
Isn't it only God,
The Creator...
Of a reality and truth of it to know exists.
Has yet created anything to remain,
As is to stay the way it is.
Changing to evolve.
Continuing to bloom into something new.
Regardless of rules, laws...
Moods, attitudes and refusal to accept,
That which God has chosen to create to do?
Will a 'When' that begins,
To become the ultimate experience...again.
Have those sitting in positions of authority,
Believing themselves anointed,
To interpret their version of visions...
Of who and what God is to imitate.
Awaken them to stop,
Deluding themselves to fiction and fake...
This place we call to be known as Earth.
Has been and still is,
A remarkable floating piece of dust.
And not a weapon to use.
Destroying all of us.
As ungrateful leeching creatures.
Determined to have themselves accepted,
As warriors controlling...
Over the entire Universe.
With an implementing a sad crazed madness.
Successfully marketed as profitable fiction.
Inviting real destruction and witnessed,
A promoting of self defeat.
For the money and fun of it!
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Written on May 13, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 13, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on May 13, 2022
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,046 |
Words | 415 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 8, 11, 13, 9 |
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