The Cause And Not The Cure Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

It is a challenge and task.
Not too many will ask to perform.
A doing to speak with truth and honesty.
And...
To do this done,
While others sit criticizing...
Shouting against this effort to endeavor.
Without the use of common sense.
Or backbones and spines.
Finding truth and honesty,
They have been conditioned to fear.
Yet...
Welcome conflict, confusion and division.
With ignorance to permit it to exist.

Even though it has been truth and honesty,
That continues to remain to go dismissed.
No one who sits,
With lips to twist and eyes to roll...
Seems capable with their minds to connect,
As the cause and not the cure.
They wilfully with intent to prevent,
Ongoing dilemmas they seek to invent.
To then deny.
While lieing to others and themselves.
About lives they live to delude.