Forced To Expose Themselves Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Forced to expose themselves and show,
Every flaw and existing blemish there is...
Is a better life to adapt and live,
Than it is to not have had this experience...
Like many who make attempts,
To keep up with appearances and kept pretentions.
Ask anyone who seems to have quickened steps,
With a caring less who shuffles along.
As if to hunger for approval and acceptance.
From anyone who notices on their faces shown regret.

And the rest of those who seem to live life best,
Are the ones who have been stripped naked.
With nothing left kept but identity, pride and dignity.
To consider them as being true to value possessions,
Amongst those folks who once provoked and joked.
Folks who joked and laughed from a long gone past.
But today seem to live unhappy lives,
Based on self deception and the creating of lies.
And trying to deny they hide a seeking of approval.
As if they do not hunger for an acceptance gone to reject.