Difficult To Delude Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If people are in support,
Of their beliefs done to do faithfully.
Whose business is it,
How others choose to dress to address this.
Whether confessed to express or not.
When hypocrites will sit,
In places where they worship.
Quick to turn necks and heard to whisper.
Regardless if in the midst of a sermon preached.
To then after the service leave.
Quick with judgements to pass.
On other worshippers to either belittle or demean.
And all will claim,
Devoted Christian values.
Yet...
For whatever the reason will defend to pretend,
With scriptures learned to quote.
And the exact chapter,
From a leather bound Bible that quote to read.
Although...
Can not prove their good deeds to have done.
Showing the evidence of it.
And where this proof can actually be.
On a daily basis.
To be witnessed and seen.
Without an impressive dramatic testimony.
On Sunday performed to receive an 'Amen'.

"So cynical you are."

-Meaning? -

"A depiction of the truth to exaggerate."

-No.
I disagree.
I'm not distrustful of human nature.
Or the motives people have.
I just observe what I see.
Not to depict or exaggerate it.
And a cynic I am not.
Perhaps...
I can be accused of being a realist.
Overwhelmed by truth.
I find difficult to delude.-