Witnessed To Observe



It has been heard to hear repeatedly.
And observed to see it,
As open as it appears to be.

Yet people who continue,
To remain socially illiterate.
And defend their inability to sit and learn,
Anything at all about life as is to live it.
Yet can not tell the difference,
Between fiction and reality.
With games to play and lies to tell.
Done to clown around.
To then claim themselves,
Of being down to Earth.
Heard to hear their dilemmas to face,
On a daily basis.
Has been the cause of others,
Unconcerned about the quality of life.
They choose to live.
Then argue loudly to say,
To have been victimized...
By choices self inflicted to have made!

Observed to see and heard to hear,
From one generation to the next to expect...
Opportunities given.
No one is prepared to accept.
Or create for themselves.
In places where fiction to live it.
And truth heard to hear it is denied!

'Why is that?'

'Lack of discipline.
Lack of self respect to give or accept.
And a lack of paying attention,
To the ones who have experienced...
Ignorance and multiple years,
Of ignoring the effects of it.'

'By who, whom or what?'

'By those who assume,
Benefits to them will come...
Easily to achieve this done successfully.
With it to see,
Their quality of life slowly fading away.
Right before their lieing to deny,
Their own deceiving eyes!
By whom or what you ask?
The who, whom or what,
Trust that a reliving the past...
To already have had.
Is a much better future.
If everyone agrees,
What was had would be valued...
With painted murals,
Planted flowers to rejuvenate what could be.
Would bring back the people who left,
To come back and rejoice...
How remarkable a delusion has been,
Smothered to cover up!'

'That's a negative assessment.'

'From whose point of view?
Reality to appreciate,
The truth of it for what it is?
Has gone and nowhere near to accept.
Or expected here to come and visit.
Anytime soon.'
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Written on November 21, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on November 21, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,902
Words 412
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 18, 7, 1, 6, 1, 20, 1, 6

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