Endangered Are These Species Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

I see many things and most are facts.
Others I see,
I would rather subtract from my view.

Endangered are these species seen.
Treated to dispense.
And numbed to grow weak,
On updated renovated streets...
To glamorize a replacing of lives,
Until they've been erased from memory...
In a slow diminishing to have them go unnoticed,
When the deleting of them eventually becomes complete.

I see many things and most are facts.
Others I see,
I would rather subtract from my view.

I remember when respect was expected,
And shown with dignity.
I remember when identities,
Were as diversed and common...
And represented countless nationalities.

Endangered are these species seen.
Treated to dispense.
And numbed to grow weak,
On updated renovated streets...
To glamorize a replacing of lives,
Until they've been erased from memory.

Gone is the flavor replaced by vague substitutes.
Gone is the magnificence I came to love and knew.
Gone from this is 'LIFE'...
Perceived can be easily reproduced.
But now too expensive to live,
With a doing before the greeding to feast...
Soured the moods and divisions came,
To restrict and limit those who fenced their biased attitudes.

Endangered are these species seen.
Treated to dispense.
And numbed to grow weak,
On updated renovated streets...
To glamorize a replacing of lives,
Until they've been erased from memory.

Gone is the flavor replaced by vague substitutes.
Gone is the magnificence I came to love and knew.
Gone from this is 'LIFE'...

I see many things and most are facts.
Others I see,
I would rather subtract from my view.

I remember when respect was expected,
And shown with dignity.
I remember when identities,
Were as diversed and common...
And represented countless nationalities.

Gone is the love no longer to exist.

I see many things and most are facts.
Others I see,
I would rather subtract from my view.

Endangered are these species seen,
On updated renovated streets...
To glamorize a replacing of lives,
Until they've been erased from memory.
And gone from this is 'LIFE'...
As if the doing can be easily reproduce.

I see many things and most are facts.
Others I see,
I would rather subtract from my view.
Endangered are these species seen.
Endangered is this magnificence...
Believed can be easily renovated,
To reproduce a life to live and glamorize.