Extraordinary Measures
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Extraordinary measures.
Taken.
By the many who wish,
To pleasure themselves.
In their attempts to reverse the hands of time.
Hoping this doing will ease their minds.
If again to live,
When days they found it easy to be...
Without truth interrupting,
A deluded way of life to regard it lived...
As a normalcy.
Free to teach.
Whatever they wanted to have believed.
And then it happened.
The advancement of technology.
Revealing reality for what it was to be.
And no one was prepared.
For this to occur that quick and fast.
Leaving some stunned.
And many more to become dumbfounded.
Doing the best they could,
To erase tracks they created.
Of lies told to tell and sell.
As to who did what to elevate their greatness.
And today,
In the year of 2022.
People find themselves,
Doing all they can do to remove the truth.
From every book they can find.
To undermine the reality,
Of their own proven history.
Wherever it is to keep truth as is,
Kept fictioned.
Reinterpreted to protect,
The inquisitive minds of their children.
Children they can't accept to believe,
Have been exposed and already know...
How close those deceivers are.
And not that far from their own homes.
Extraordinary are the measures,
Taken to waste...
To censor the truth and the reality of it.
Up and in everyone's face these days.
No matter where one lives.
Hoping to isolate themselves.
Behind walls, fences and guarded gates.
Truth will find them and their minds.
Not only behind the times.
But also,
Destroying themselves.
With this done to accuse and believe,
It has been the cause of ethnic diversity.
That is the reason for the rise,
Of their mental instabilities.
And it had not been that long ago,
When they depended upon...
One's ethnic diversity,
To do for them...
What they refused to do for themselves.
Like...
Plant, grow and harvest their food.
With a doing to pay them low wages.
Do maintenance around their homes.
With a doing to pay them low wages.
Recruit them first,
To assist them in the fighting their wars.
Then to ignore them.
When their battles were won.
And choose them first,
To discriminate against.
When it became convenient to depict them,
As worthless human beings.
While destroying their contributions made.
To then have it believed throughout history,
Those of ethnic diversity...
Disenfranchised and disparaged,
Caused their own neighborhoods...
To be burned down.
Enforcing them to live poverished.
And could not be expected to afford,
Living in those same neighborhoods...
Renovated with a gentrification.
Replaced by condos, entertainment districts.
As deceiving thieves qualify themselves to be,
Owners of everything not to have earned!
Extraordinary measures,
Taken to reduce the quality of life of others.
Ultimately has its price to pay.
And the doing of it,
Has its expense.
That the losing of one's mind,
Can not afford or find a cure to mend.
There is as most awakened to know,
GOD alone...
Delivers HIS/HERS/ or IT'S best tests.
And those who remain faithful,
Are eventually the witnesses of the results.
'What is this you suggest?
Threats?'
ME?
Are you kidding?
I'm an observer.
Not a self serving politician!
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Written on September 03, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on September 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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