Kept Resisted Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

These days are not those days,
Many use to face...
With a routine unchanged.
And a kept dependency,
On repeated habits remaining the same.
These days...
Are not those days.

These days are not those days,
When any excuse to make to replace truth...
With the comfort of hiding behind alibis,
Had been easy to do.
Wherever anyone traveled...
They kept in their minds,
Fresh explanations to use to abuse the truth.

But,
These days...
Many are forced to stop,
Their lies.
These days...
Many are finding truth,
Can't be disguised.
These days...
Many are clearing up,
Blurred eyes.
To realize themselves being victimized.

What had been rejected to neglect,
Has found its way to arrive on doorsteps...
Of those disbelieving they must now accept.

What had been ignored to turn a head before,
Today no one has a choice to make...
To erase from their minds to eliminate.

These days...
Many are finding truth,
Can't be disguised.
These days...
Many are clearing up,
Their blurred eyes.
To realize themselves being victimized,
As these days lived magnify...
A truth that is they can't deny.

These days...
Delusions soothe those who've been made,
Fools.
These days...
Delusions soothe those who've been made,
Fools.
These days...
People are doing their best to refuse the truth,
These days.
As if the truth ignored will go away.
And kept resisted,
Someday.
And kept resisted,
To stay.
To be resisted,
That way.
And kept resisted,
Always.