And, Yet...Once Again Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

And, yet...
Once again,
Our severe pain to feel...
Without given time to mend or heal.
Is revisited as if,
The uselessness to express it...
Seems another excuse to confess.
And yet...
Once again we find ourselves,
Placing blame and accusations.
As we continue to defend,
The comfort of our kept ignorance.
To accept and not to end.
And, yet...
Once again,
We can not come to face...
The teachings of bigotry and hatred,
As the cause and reason...
Our feeding upon misconceptions,
We have fed historically to keep false beliefs.
Kept to validate which race is superior.
To advance the disadvantages,
Of a mental illness.
That promises to erase all humanity.
And yet...once again,
We gather together to pretend we comprehend.
But a listening to digest,
With a paying attention to observe the unrest...
Created by our thoughtless selfishness.
We remain inflicting more pain to get,
To perceive what we do done to others...
Comes to return a benefit of it to gain.
And, yet...once again,
Lessons to learned from our misdeeds to leave...
We are left to believe,
Not 'us' but others from them will bleed.