Lies Told To Have Sold
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
So many have spent,
Their entire lives...
On lies told to have sold.
To deceive others,
Made to believe...
These folks who have not lived,
Two minutes on their own alone...
Did 'This' to do 'That',
Never to have happened.
Yet...
Only in their minds to occur.
These people claim to have experienced,
Lives filled with trauma.
Quick to recall and dramatized.
With a doing to gain for themselves empathy.
And it given from the ones,
Who become also victimized by their lies.
Although too late to realize,
So many like this...
Who have spent their entire lives lieing.
Are the very same people,
They supported to believe to be...
Martyrs who were treated wrongly,
By others they depended upon...
To have them seen,
As the ones sitting around.
While those who have lied did everything.
Including taking care of themselves,
When left alone on their own abandoned.
Then when asked about other siblings?
They are heard to blame them,
For making them do chores.
Without lieing to fiction and delude,
What it was they were made to do.
As if the other children sat and watched!
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Written on August 28, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on August 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Words | 223 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 18, 6 |
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