Cliques Picked Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Likability,
And the keeping of one's social status...
Does more for the feeding of egos,
Solicited and sought amongst those...
Shallowed by impressions to make,
As substance to obtain begins to fade...
A slow degrading quality of life.
While a pretense to charade,
Maintains its stay effectively without 'insight'.

Likability,
Although communicated between those picked...
Does nothing for a substance,
With little of it left to prove it exists...
To prevent a sliding downhill as if to permit,
A once wished quality of life to enrich...
Kept as an objective on a top ten list.

However,
Within those cliques picked...
Others disliked and thought too offensive,
Are often mentioned with distain...
When truth they speak does not entertain.
And the ones who refrain from listening to it,
Complain of a discomfort they want to distance.
For purposes to allow their delusions to represent,
Perceptions to value kept socially etiquette.
While hiding their deceptions of being hypocrites.

Who benefits,
From cliques picked...
When a quality of life fades quick.
Who benefits,
From this...
When a quality of life fades quick.
Who benefits,
From cliques picked...
When a quality of life fades quick.
Who benefits,
From this...
When a quality of life fades quick.
Who benefits?
Who and what from this gets benefits?
And where is it?
With proof of it.