Grass To Grow Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Voting just to do it,
May inspire people to believe...
This done to alone,
Affects the changes...
Claimed they need.

However...
If these same people,
Ignited with excitement.
Living in communities.
Awaiting for opportunities,
To come from air they breathe.
And not establish,
Strong relationships with businesses.
To solicit with proven discipline to show,
Of knowing what it takes,
That only 'together' make success grow.
A voting just to do it.
Is a voting just to do.

A voting just to do it,
Alone will not improve...
What a people refuse,
For themselves done to prove.
Instead of protesting against,
Fences they themselves implemented.
With a convincing this to do makes sense.
A voting just to do it,
Only creates the opportunity,
For them to remain the same unchanged.
And this is more accepted to expect,
By those unenlightened.
Limited to times with minds confined!

"Uh...excuse me but,
What are you doing?
Working in the Sun.
Sweating as if getting something done.
Didn't you vote? "

-Yes, I did.
Got up early this morning to plant that seed.-

"I don't believe this.
I did too!
But I'm not working that hard.
Like you are doing.
Without receiving from it done,
Anything to prove what you do soon comes.
I'm not doing a thing,
Until changes come to me to bring."

-Grass to grow,
Has to first have roots.
Someone has to plant them.
And that's what I have chosen,
For myself to do.-

"That makes no sense."

("Hmmm...
Grass to grow has to first have roots.
Some folks will never get it.
Doing something 'before',
Anything done for them is produced.
Grass to grow has to first have roots.
What a joke!)

-Good luck with your efforts to endeavor.-

"You too!
But...
Unlike you,
My fingers won't be crossed.
I voted.
And that's enough for me."

-Good luck.
Who knows.
Your approach,
With that effort to endeavor...
May one day produce the results you seek.-