Midas Touch

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Successful and effective.
Has been the acceptance of deception.
And a kept belief,
Corrupted thieves to be...
Today's heros of all humanity.
Observed to witness,
The supporting to endorse...
Those continuing being misled,
By misdeeds fed to feed.
The fiction that deludes,
Minds unconscious.
Removed from the truth.
And stripped away to completely distance,
Reality and common sense.
Left to leave blinded behind,
A doing that undermines a way of life.
To deliberately intend,
Eliminating entitlements...
Given freely to them.

Had this image of a King Midas touch,
Gone to cheer on the ones who prolong...
Claiming themselves victims.
Threatened by the increasing,
Faces of ethnic diversity?
That has created the greatest democracy.
These days of envy.
And revealing insecure jealousies.
Used without it to mention,
Division.
Bigotry and discriminating hatred.
Has been,
More an effective weapon.
Successfully used to pretend it isn't.

Yet observed to witness on a daily basis.
More restrictions applied,
To the lives of those living their lives.
Denied to rise to higher heights.
Afraid that people,
Non-white of various ethnic diversities.
Are more competent and less insecure.
Without a pretentiousness to defend.
Or expensive weapons.
Kept to protect,
Against a truth to detect its presence!

Even if such events,
May just be...
Hypothetically intended to suspect!
Since...
In these tumultuous days.
With evidence and proof displayed.
Who really knows why some people,
Seem to wilfully volunteer...
Their mental instabilities.
Claim to blame,
On their inability to control and prevent...
Images fading that represents,
Themselves as the face of democracy.
Being replaced without public debate.
Or approval that takes consideration!
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Written on April 18, 2024

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 18, 2024

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Quick analysis:

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,737
Words 325
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 19, 14, 11, 15

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