Choose Acceptance Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Choose acceptance.
Denial kept,
Is a slow mind killer.

A choice to choose acceptance,
Has its advantages.
Few remain unable to move,
Beyond their expectations...
Of what others should or should not do.
With this to believe,
Those who treat others as they please...
Eventually feel guilt about this.
To later express a knowing of it.

Choose acceptance.
Denial kept,
Is a slow mind killer.

These days we live,
Selfishness is on full display.
Not everywhere.
Just in places where it seems magnified.
As if the doing has been approved.
And legalized to be okay to see it and hear,
Meant.
Leaving nothing else shown,
But an acknowledgement of tolerance.

Choose acceptance.
Denial kept,
Is a slow mind killer.

Know a consciousness with thoughtfulness,
Was never there by those...
Who appear to know this to have to value.
And this to accept,
Has its advantages.
To expect nothing else and move on.

Choose acceptance.
Denial kept,
Is a slow mind killer.
Observe the minds already gone.
Awaiting for explanations.
From those who have done them wrong.
Move on.
Refuse to question,
Anyone who remains to stay victimized.
Know that's their choice.
And not yours to have made!