Obtained To Remain Maintained



One's peace of mind,
That has taken years to earn.
Should never become a debate,
One participates in debating to protect...
Or expect to defend,
By those who agitate and question...
The value one has to keep prioritize,
What one knows is priceless to have.
And if this blessing bestowed,
Continues to go on being disrespected?
Faith kept in God,
Observed to witness with this shown...
The ones who shine and polish their swords,
With threatening to perceive...
Fear is the life one of peace of mind and faith,
Achieved?
Eventually are victims seen,
Falling upon their own swords.
Blaming to accuse themselves of being,
Abused by a system...
Creating delusions to fiction,
Heros with weapons used to threaten...
Are chosen to perform,
In full masquerade to charade imitating...
How peace to achieve it,
Is a physical  experience to inflict.
Without the power of God to rely upon,
To deliver peace to receive internally.
Leaving this truth and reality,
Seldom mentioned by hypocrites.
Known to invest in their guns.
And an assortment of medications.
In the hopes this corrects,
The rising of their mental illnesses.
Done to cure and prevent,
Truth and its reality from being too real.
To keep running away from the affects,
Overflowing...
Hospitals.
Prisons.
And accommodating funeral homes.
At a price,
Obtained to remain maintained expensive!
For a pretentiousness repeatedly,
Addressed to protect images to idolize...
The appearances of impressions made.

'And...uh...once again.
What has any of this have to do,
With one's peace of mind?
To have achieved and earned.'

Observation.
And the recognition to acknowledge,
One's own ignorance.
Participating.
Thoughtlessly seeking attention to get!

'With you,
It's always about division, bigotry and racism.
And who creates conflict.
Isn't it?'

You bring that up.
As if preparing to defend your beliefs.
Taught to you to teach.
Wishing with a want to argue about,
The disadvantages of being a 'Christian'.
And I am discussing,
My experiences in achieving peace of mind.
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Written on May 12, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on May 12, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,018
Words 396
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 46, 4, 5, 4, 7

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