To Ruin A Unity Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

It only takes one liar,
To ruin a unity.
However...
A unity of liars,
Can destroy an entire city.

Look around.
Seeking to find honesty found,
Anywhere...
Is as rare as folks telling the truth,
As much as they prefer...
To joke and clown,
About the dire situations they create...
In which devastating their own lives,
Doing with lies to delude one another...
Is not only an expectation,
But an accepted mindset.

It only takes one liar,
To ruin a unity.
However...
A unity of liars,
Can destroy an entire city.

Look around.
Seeking to find honesty found,
Anywhere...
Is as rare as folks telling the truth,
As much as they prefer to joke and clown.
To accept and expect it done,
By everyone except...
The ones they allow to keep them oppressed.
To know how best to ruin a unity kept.
With the serious intention meant of it...
Left to go unaddressed to express.

Look around.
There are more today evading honesty,
Than clowns can be found in any circus.
Treating minds to feed upon,
Their own devastation to dismiss the presence...
Of an existing reality.

Look around.
With or without a mask attached.
Are you one who is witnessing?
Or are you being witnessed to dismiss...
As part of a unity too addicted and sickened,
To admit it.