Totally Worthless Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

What can be said.
To people with thick heads.
And determined not to pay attention.
Or stop to listen.
Yet to hear them say,
Someone should have made them aware...
Of the high price paid,
For those consequences to pay...
That time delayed and wasted takes.

'Someone should have taken a stand.
And demanded that we shut our mouths.
Now our stubbornness has cost us,
The loss of jobs and effective opportunities.
Dignities and possessions to impress.
To leave us only with our kept pretentions.
Most of us have discovered to be,
Totally worthless and without real purpose.'

~Well,
You do have one thing left...
That has increased in value.~

'Oh yeah?
And 'what' would 'that',
ONE THING be?
Hmmm?
Identity? '
Go ahead and say it.'

~I apologize.
You have 'two' things left...
That has increased in value.
Not only an identity you can reclaim.
To knock the dust off of it.
But also a 'truth',
You have kept so long denied.
And very seldom used.
Congratulations!
Many are not that fortunate.
To be blessed with time to realize it.
Sometimes with 'nonsense' in the way,
Truth can be disguised.
And conveniently hidden.
Under a creating of false pride.~