Who Benefits From This Restricted Existence Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

What is it about our lives lived,
So many are finding hard to accept?
What is it implanted in the minds of those young,
That they can do what they wish with a damage done.
To find it appropriate to bring harm to someone.
And then have access to weapons,
To address their temperments and inflict misdeeds.

What messages are sent to present these tragedies?
And when will it dawn on a society to begin,
A depth that is assessed...
Without protecting a pretentiousness to defend.
Since the affects of pretending has not decreased the pain.
Nor has those lofty standards that are valued...
Maintained a worth with a purpose that remains.

What is it about our lives lived,
So many are finding hard to accept?
What is it implanted in the minds of those young,
That they can do what they wish with a damage done.
To find it appropriate to bring harm to someone.
And then have access to weapons,
To address their temperments and inflict misdeeds.

Where are those lofty standards valued?
Where do they exist to be taught,
To remain contained?
And where do those isolated...
Believe with them they keep maintained?
Who benefits from this restricted existence,
When upon themselves they inflict their own pain.