Destruction As A Purposed Function Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Many refuse to accept,
Or comprehend their negligence affects...
What they have done that stuns and comes back,
To their own doorsteps to attack.
Although ample signs have been flashing around them,
With warnings bright and in neon...
Surrounding them with conflicts unending,
And destruction as a purposed function to feed upon.

Those isolated and living within gated communities,
Believing their activities safe and beyond reproach...
To find them blameworthy for their misdeeds,
Are more in fear of the unstable mentalities...
Of those neighbors living close with guns to use,
Kept to them near.
As they feel entitled to arm their children with rifles.
An entitlement their 'kids' are taught to endear.

As an increase of crimes continue to be committed,
By those who can not admit...
Their unquestioned habits,
Have been the reason and the cause for the rise of misfits.
And a self reflection to examine themselves,
Will never come to exist since they've been taught...
With lessons learned and sought to divide,
To then conquer with weapons as their right!
With God on their side.