Basic And Simple Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Things obtained.
Become just things,
To obtain them.
Although...
This to acknowledge,
Has to be a developing process.
By those aging to face reality.
With this to eventually see,
What is sold and marketed...
Has a purpose to empty pockets.
Leaving people scrambling,
For more credit to get to deepen debts!
And those who have arrived,
Realizing a budget controls their lives.
Can not dispute the truth of it.

Now,
Happiness...
So basic and simple,
To acquire this and achieve.
Once the value and worth of it,
Awakens one to know...
Has nothing to do,
With impressions to make.
Or pretensions to address them.
For others to leave believing,
How one appears or lives,
Should at least have their acceptance.
Notorized and approved.
To noticeably become upset.
When happiness one acquires,
They can not find ways to assess.

And this alone,
Is an achievement.
Yes.
Since to live basic and simple,
Is not only inexpensive.
But the more of happiness,
One earns to get.
Less is the nonsense.
Left to leave,
Behind to know it for what it is.

"So glad to see you.
It has been such a long time.
Over here,
You may or may not notice.
But we have updated and improved,
Upon our nonsense.
How much of it would you like?
Do you prefer...
The eye poppers?
Or the gossip droppers?
Which appeals to you the most? "

-Uh...
I'll pass.
However,
I must say...
Your attempts at renovating,
Could appeal to the ones...
Unfamiliar with the cost.
And how expensive it is,
Keeping up with the ever changing...
Appearances of the same thing offered.-