Insight
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Insight blessed to have and know,
Is worthy to keep nourishing...
The growth of it and share.
Although be prepared,
For many not to be aware...
Of what having insight means.
Or value common sense to use,
To achieve reaching a conclusion.
That those to have insight,
Are often accused of making stuff up.
Until truth punches fiction in the gut.
Below the belt.
And everywhere else.
Including denying lieing eyes.
Leaving those facing reality to hear heard say,
They knew all the time...
What for them was coming.
But the ones conscious with open minds,
Made no suggestions or recommendations.
Yet spoke as if their statements had been,
More than opinions given.
To take or ignore.
Or remain exploring the possibilities,
Of the same repeated activities.
Expecting new and different as a result!
And...
This to believe or not,
Has left many to wonder why...
A dollar to spend it,
Will not accumulate more of it to save.
If one's debts to owe,
Continues to be credited to borrowed loans.
Regardless who is convinced to believe,
Money comes from leaves off trees.
And not made into paper.
Once known as wood cut from a tree.
That same tree miraculously surviving,
Through greed, climate change and stupidity.
Contributed by a humanity living to argue,
Over ethnic diversity, bigotry and division.
While worshipping to value credit scores.
In a plastic to prioritize waste as a culture.
Based upon appearances, impressions made.
And pretensions kept to charade a faking.
'But...
Isn't this who we are as a democratic society?'
Of course.
Why ask such an obvious question?
'You seem to scrutinized our way of life,
With such negative, pessimistic insight.'
What is observe to witness,
Is neither delusional nor can be denied.
'Correction.
If the majority chooses denial as a way of life,
Who is it given the authority...
To disbelieve what appears to be seen?
And then have it perceived the truth to fiction,
Is their right to turn down what had been up!'
Okay.
You won that round.
Now...
When mistakes admitted comes to pass.
And everyone is in a forgiving,
Kissing of lips and aspiration disposition?
Who then will be left to blame?
'Blame?
Blame for what?'
For teaching the values of common sense.
To the found to discover mindless.
Whose only interests are pleasure,
Quick to satisfy 3 minutes of sex.
Then to seek something next to do.
Because the ease of being bored,
For many...
Has become an expectation!
Made the law of the land.
'What kind of future is that to have?'
Apparently none without insight.
And none without insight is no future to have.
Minds restricted to limits,
Have already begun to dim.
Notice the darkness,
In decisions made these days.
Children.
Our very own children,
Are being groomed and raised...
To accept and believe,
Expressing disrespect to anyone...
Is a badge of honor.
With proud parents,
Teaching to encourage this mindset.
To wonder...
Where have all the legit teachers gone!
With assuming them not qualified or fit,
To babysit both parents and kids...
Fighting amongst themselves.
In one classroom.
Deserving the B.S. they get to receive.
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Written on May 16, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 16, 2023
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