Charading Of Affectations Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A pretense of interest,
Will get one so far in the doing of it...
Until it becomes noticed,
A discipline that should be connected...
Is distanced from a committed delivery.
Yet embellished to exaggerate,
In social settings to irritate...
Those of experience,
But not set always in performance mode...
When the presence of a pretentiousness,
Although humorous but gets closer to aggravation...
And believed to be accepted,
By the one disconnected but yet suspects...
Others perform just for a public attention to get.
And they too come prepared to display,
A charading of affectations.
But the need is not there for them to do this,
When between themselves it is known they sit...
Clearly amongst their peers witnessing one,
Who masquerades but with a missing link.