With A Doing To Be Mean Meant
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
With a doing to be mean meant.
Done to do to appease the teaching of it.
As a purpose that achieves,
An attention intentionally...
To delude and fiction,
Truth and reality.
Eventually to discover and find,
Limited are the benefits.
Restricting those with curious minds.
Swiftly being left behind.
In these rapidly changing times undefined.
Left blind are many,
Choosing to accept.
Their lives to live,
Is a choice to do it independently.
Without depending upon others.
Regardless of their different ethnicities.
To fulfill their wants and every need.
Until they open wider eyes closed shut.
Realizing,
Everything they claim to own and possess.
Yet will blame and demean someone else.
Unknown to accuse,
For making their lives a living mess.
A mess created by themselves.
Although...
Believing kept inside their isolated minds,
Is a protective denial that rejects...
The food they eat to buy.
The clothes they wear,
To address and impress pretentions made.
Little of it did they create or participate,
In bringing to a table.
Where they pray for their blessings.
But...
Eliminated from their prayers,
Is a gratitude to express...
An inability to accept,
Truth and reality to interfere.
With a worshipping of their hypocrisies!
'Let us gather together.
And bow our heads.
Thanking God for all we have.'
'Uh...
What about those God chose,
To enable us to receive and achieve...
For all that we have to be thankful for!'
'Like who?'
'The ones we discriminate against.'
'When are you going to stop,
That nonsense?
All I ever hear them wanting,
Is a slice of pie.
A free range chicken in a pot.
And...
40 acres and a mule.
While whining to complain,
About being hungry and homeless.
Then...
Wanting more.
For what?
Picking cotton?
Days long gone to be forgotten?!'
'But...
You said Mabel, our maid.
Was one of us!'
'As long as she does the chores.
All that talk about being poor,
Is her business.
And not ours to empathize or sympathize.
With whatever predicament she's in.
Geeessshhh.
Now...
Let us bow our heads and pray!'
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Written on May 05, 2024
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 05, 2024
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Stanzas | 8 |
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