Ending Illusions To Delude
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Ending illusions to delude.
This to include as a possibility,
One should exclude mentally as probable.
And refuse to waste the time to believe,
What has been created to deceive reality...
Would be a better choice to choose,
If one already accepts lies to them told.
Yet has chosen to live,
A life few others know they also can expect...
To permit themselves to be victims of denial.
In comfort without anyone else,
Attempting to destroy a peace of mind...
Everyone claims a want and need to find.
But somehow...
They rather keep the doing of it,
Kept strictly to fiction.
Done to delude the illusion,
Of what truth is to create more escapes...
Associated with whatever medications,
Many are prescribed to take...
Chasing rainbows.
In the hope to catch fantasies.
And the truth of them before they fade away!
With a doing done to blame and accuse,
Anyone suspiciously looking...
Peacefully stress free, happy and completely,
Sober!
Without any sign of being addicted,
To drugs or alcohol.
Or...
Heard to express having being involved,
In disappointing relationships.
To have had in the past.
'What is wrong with people like that?'
'What do you mean,
People like that?
How should people like 'that' be?'
'Like us.'
'And how are we?'
'Complaining and whining,
About everything all the time.'
'Maybe they live,
Without illusions to delude...
The deceiving of the truth!'
'What a sick and dysfunctional,
Way to live reality.
Completely messed up in the head.
Having no complaints.
Smiling and joking.
What's normal about that?'
'Remember when smoking weed was illegal?'
'Huh? What?'
'There is a new place they just opened up.
Now there are three within one block.
How much more normal,
Are they trying to get you and me to be?'
'What?
That doesn't make sense.
What happened to the war on drugs?'
'Hey...
You fight your battles.
While I enjoy mine.'
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Written on October 22, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on October 22, 2023
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Characters | 1,857 |
Words | 389 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 29, 4, 1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 6, 1, 4, 3, 3 |
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