I Can Afford To Gloat Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Under your direction,
Our entire belief system...
Has plummeted.

Why are you gloating?
You have been clearly defeated,
By your foes.

'I know!
But my ego had never been involved.
Those who opposed my recommendations,
Have devastated themselves.
And what has been exposed,
Is their lunacy.
Not mine.
I attempted to find ways to save their 'beliefs'.

So...
What is your next move?

'A repeating of what I initially said.
We,
Not me.
But WE have lots of work to do.
You've already proven your personal attacks on me...
Does not solve 'your' problems.'

I can afford to gloat.
The only risk I have taken,
Was to reveal the truth.
Your belief system needed to be freed,
From delusions kept that cause your bleeding.

And...
Not once,
Did I call anyone a fool.
Or an imbecile.
I am proud of that.
And I am not gloating.
That is 'your' interpretation.
But 'if' it pleases you to believe that?
A gloating done I will do.

Now...
Do you insist on continuing playing,
Childish games?
Or...
Do you want to get down to business?
It's up to you.

And,
Remember this...
I can afford to gloat.
Can you? '