Beliefs To Have Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

What has passed not to last.
Should no longer matter.
Regardless what it was,
To want and wish back.

And here we are.
You, me, they and them.
Living in times moving away fast.
Holding onto beliefs.
Our ancestors had.
Upset and protesting,
Who amongst us is deserving...
To benefit from those entitlements,
More credited to unpaid debts.
Threating a way of life.
That has little quality left.
Overtaxed and trashed.
Tricked by those rich.
Implementing more deceptions.
Done to laugh about it.

And here we are,
You, me, they and them.
Committed to conflicts.
Racism and division.
Raising high our noses,
In a charaded paraded pretentiousness.
Mindless without consciousness.
Or common sense to use.
Yet convinced our mentalities,
Have not been abused.
Although owing to delusion...
Nothing more than confusion.
To accuse and blame,
For a way of life kept the way it is.
Protected to defend.

And here we are.
You, me, they and them.
Committed to conflicts.
Racism and division.
Raising high our noses.
Posing!
In a charaded, paraded pretentiousness.
Perceiving a nonsense to defend.
Will restore a way of life.
Losing the quality of it.
To blame and accuse what we've done to do,
On others who refuse to accept...
The depth of an ignorance,
We allowed and created all by ourselves!
With beliefs we have.
Antiquated, outdated.
And understatedly over-rated!

What was had to have passed.
Not to last to move on.
Should no longer matter to debate.
Regardless what it was.
To want and wish back.
As time we use to waste it.
Fades away from everyone not to stay.
Even those made crazed by these days we live,
Will ultimately leave...
Someone to discover,
A stupidity to disbelieve!