Networking (A Picture Already Painted) Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A process that effects,
The strength of a web...
Can only achieve a success,
Shown to progress.
With this understood.
And all involved are focused,
In one direction.
To accept with no exceptions.
Or rules to break to take recess.
This to comprehend ends divisions.
And begins,
Networking.

Networking to do,
Whether positive or negative...
Will reveal and seldom conceals,
How this activity comes to be used.
With results to prove them witnessed
Who chose which to choose.
Either to cement gains to benefit.
Or...
Continue to refuse opportunities,
To lose.
Done to do to leave some perceive...
Confrontation and arguing concepts,
Is for them advantageous.
To then expect explanations,
As to why their perceptions...
Have them in a dormant stage,
For decades.
To not understand,
What outdated means.

'What my ancestors did,
To do and accomplish...
Is good enough for me.'

-And what your ancestors did,
To leave remarkably accomplished...
Are beliefs of bigotry and divisions
That has left the entire world,
Betwixt and in between...
Unending conflicts.
Needing mending to correct and fix,
An undoing of false beliefs.
And the epidemic of ignorance.-

'Are you calling my ancestors,
Ignorant? '

-No!
They would find my doing it,
Offensive.
But you,
On the other hand...
May 'hopefully' be more observant.
A picture already painted,
Expresses what words somehow...
Can never do.-