Analysis of Fearing Being Replaced

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



The many caught up,
In false beliefs...
That a purity of their race,
Is actively in place.
Leaving it to wonder,
What purity is this not to exist.
Yet convinced,
They reflect to image it.
Worshipped to idolize.
To remove and be replaced.

We are living in times,
Created to leave folks crazed.
And...
Seems more of a doing,
By those fighting amongst themselves.
In fear of losing,
A fiction to delude.
By one who refuses to appear,
Without colorizing their own face.
To have long removed,
The truth of an identity.
More focused on fraud and deception.
A deception perfected,
With lies to tell and sold to convince...
Many.
That their way of life and entitlements,
Are being replaced.
And done to mean it meant.
To remove and replace,
Them from the human race.

Yet...
That to do and prove,
Seems amongst themselves...
These days to do.
As if...
Accustomed to exist,
Alone to have never done it.
Without their dependency on diversity.
And that will be a miracle.
When and if...
That goal to reach becomes theirs to believe!

'What do you mean...IF?
We are the face and image of GOD.'

'I know.
I too have seen those same movies.'

'Jews will not replace us.
Blacks will not replace us.
Nor will those brown, yellow or green.'

'Don't worry about that.
You're removing yourselves off the scene.
Whoa...
I apologize.
I meant to say,
Off TV screens.'


Scheme XXAAXBXCDE XXXFGFXXAXHXXXHXEXAA XIGXJBCHXJX IX KX LLM XMKDXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01011 0101 10100111 110001 101110 1100111101 101 1011101 10110 101011 111001 0101111 0 111010 11100101 01110 010101 111010101 01100111 11101 01110100 110110010 0010010 111101101 10 1111100100 1101 011111 10101 110101 1 11101 10101 1111 11 010101 01111011 011010010100 01110100 101 1111011101 1111 110101011 11 11111110 11111 11111 11111011 110011 101001101 1 1010 1111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,346
Words 300
Sentences 41
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 10, 20, 11, 2, 2, 3, 6
Lines Amount 54
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 145
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Written on September 04, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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