A Hopeful And Victorious Re-Election Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Integrity:
MISSING!
Neither remnants,
Nor sign of it...
Appears close to approach,
A dawning upon the horizon.

Scrambling around above the Earth,
Are orbiting satellites.
Equipped with telescopes.
Created to find in desperation,
Something that convinces...
There is competent leadership.
Existing with no one to doubt,
A greatness sold to sell it...
Appears as it is claimed.
Coming out of the mouths,
Of the ones elected to protect it.
In a unique place called,
The United States Of America.
Where diversity of every race,
Is discovered and embraced.
Yet...
This reality,
High above and below...
And on urban and suburban streets.
Telescoped and up close,
Conflict, division and ignited racism.
Can not disguise,
A deceiving of truth.
Denied to hide lies deluded to fantasize.

And this on the ground found,
Walking around...
To observe and see,
Are the facts to believe.
Regardless how magnificent,
The Earth high above...
Depicts a unified beauty,
Of what could be.
But without integrity.
Honesty and truth.
To miss this to live it,
Does not reduce...
A reality produced on a daily basis.

Integrity not to have it.
As corruption, deception...
And lies welcomed to permit and exist.
Diminished to continue,
Will be the quality of humanity.
No matter how great,
A production is created...
To eliminate the facts.
With an erasing of them,
From a reality to pretend...
Is not what it is.
Yet many are hoping,
How they view it is kept...
Successfully defended.
And stays that way to keep faked!

"Uh Houston? "

-Houston. Go ahead.-

"We have a problem."

-What is it this time?
More unidentifiable objects,
Flying around.-

"No.
Much more mysterious.
Are you absolutely sure,
You want us to take...
Close up pictures of the United States? "

-Yes. And they are needed soon.-

"Well...
Difficult it will be,
To capture the greatness of it.
Without the diversity,
The existing leaders...
Prefer not to have this seen."

-You're right.
We have no other choice.
We'll have to use the pictures,
Of those 'aliens' waving...
From the UFOs.
Hopefully we can convince,
The Earth is being threatened.
Before November 3rd.
We are desperately in need,
Of something that will guarantee...
Us a victorious re-election! -