Understanding To Comprehend
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Understanding to comprehend,
Voices heard...
From each side of a dividing fence.
Build cemented,
Over years of unmoveable stubbornness.
Takes a slow process started that begins,
Chipping away those blocks carried...
On cold shoulders.
Placed there over decades frozen.
Without a hint of them thawing,
Anytime soon to melt away.
Since throughout generations,
Such fences to build them...
From a past to have long gone.
Yet remain as they are to stay.
Represents an unwillingness to listen...
To whomever that may be on the other side,
Saying it to claim...
On either side of one fence built,
Developed from an age old ignorance.
And no one is benefitting to refuse,
The using of common sense.
Just to keep a fence,
Built between them...
To remain and stay as is.
Without reason to make understood,
Why this should represent...
Their ancestors' wishes.
Not have knowledge at all,
As to where to wood came from.
Who chopped it then to paint the fence.
Without mentioning to hear this done,
By those 'others' they prefer...
Kept to stay in their places,
And away from where they don't belong.
'We deserve back our mules.
And at least 40 acres of land apiece!'
'Do you hear that nonsense?
And not a document do they have,
To prove with evidence...
Of what they are demanding to receive!
Some people can't seem to appreciate,
What we do from them to have it done.
What on this Earth is the World coming to?
Peasants, beggars and immigrants.
Everywhere to see them panhandling?
This craze and madness,
Has become outrageous!
The nerve and unmitigated gall of it all!
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Written on January 14, 2024
Submitted by lpahtillah on January 14, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,562 |
Words | 320 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 35, 2, 7, 5 |
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