Efforts With Taught Ethics Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

The wanters have been taught to believe,
They can receive what is teased with ease...
To dream as they vividly wish.
As they sit awaiting the delivery of it.
To then become envious of those who get,
With perceptions that luck and not with sweat...
Tears wept or pain to endure those sorrows to feel,
Were medicated on quick dosages of delusion.

And those with wishes who also work to produce,
Dedicate their efforts with taught ethics first...
Set with applied principles they come to value.
Realizing even with discipline and a thirst to quench...
The only thing that comes to them guaranteed,
Is a thirst that may never experience being quenched.
But a devotion that stays to remain with the journey.
With no expectations of entitlements to be given.