The Unifying Allegiance
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Upholding an allegiance to grievance.
Unifying.
And with entitled rights to prove,
A fear that threatens...
Taking progressive moves away,
From ways remaining to stay...
Hopelessly cemented in restricting ignorance.
Sad,
Are the minds...
Blinded unconsciously behind the times.
Fading thoughtlessly.
And with beliefs fictioned to feel,
Relief they can temporarily keep...
Truth kept to refuse reality to silence it.
Regardless if denial lived to delude,
Has created a quality of life left to slide...
Downhill into a cesspool.
Many without insight delight in the power,
Darkness has become invited to rule over...
Enlightenment.
Thrilled by wars to start
And a future intended and meant to exist.
Gone.
With permission given to disappear.
Yet...
Has no chance if incompetent and limited,
Leadership continues to be picked...
By images to worship a culture based upon,
Unrealistic ideals to imitate and idolize...
Empty pretensions absent of substance.
Although...
Dependable are conflicts, division.
And the diversity of racial ethnicities,
Upheld to prove them useless to value.
So as it goes,
A pledging an allegiance to grievance...
Is worth the chaos it causes to blame others,
As a ritual.
Historic.
To support and endorse,
Without explanation needed!
While the fast ticking of a clock,
Attached to a time bomb is observed.
Anticipated by those witnessing it explode!
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Written on April 07, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on April 07, 2023
Modified on April 07, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,375 |
Words | 258 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 10, 13, 14 |
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