You Will Come To Know The Obvious Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Why is that crowd over there...
Backed up into a corner.
Bickering.
AND pointing fingers at one another?

'Well...
As the story goes...
They had been the movers and shakers.
Determined many years ago,
That they would advance themselves...
By chosing people to depict as their enemies.'

Enemies?

'Yep!
As the story goes.
Now they have become a fixture around here,
As a reference to those days long gone.
And also...
Folks come from all over the globe,
To be entertained by their shananigans.'

That's amusing and quite interesting.
What has happened to those,
They once had depicted as their enemies?

Do you see the people walking up and down the street freely,
Appearing as happily and unconcerned as if nothing...
But the doing as they wish,
Is their utmost priority?

'No...
Don't tell me.
They are not the ones that had been depicted as enemies? '

Okay.
I wont tell you.
However...
If you prolong you visit,
You will come to know the obvious for yourself.
And they unconsciously,
Backed themselves up into that corner.
And everyday they return to the same place...
To argue about their version of unity,
And what is good for the community.

'Aren't their tactics a bit outdated? '

Sssshhh.
Someone will hear you.
And we've become quite satisfiied,
With the keeping of things...
Just the way they are.