Staying To Keep Aware Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Staying to keep aware and conscious,
Is affordable.
Effective.
And doesn't cost one cent.
Yet those with minds refusing to use them,
Do themselves the injustice and self abuse.

Getting bent out of shape...
And nicked and picked upon with this to take,
Should not be cause and reason...
For decisions one makes,
To lay blame on another.

People protesting and with disgust,
And discovering themselves to be out of touch...
Are the same people everyday,
Creating fresh excuses...
To accuse with the time to find someone to cuss.

And easy it is for them to defend,
The hitting of brick walls and meeting dead-ends.
With fingers pointed to others,
They claim have intentions to offend them.
Although that step they take everyday,
When they turn away from what's reflected in a mirror.