How Can This Happen? Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

People entitled,
To live their lives deluded.
On entertaining their minds,
On fantasies.
And sweetened treats.
Rely on their leaders,
To objectify and represent...
Reality and the presence of it.
And today,
Witness to see to realize...
That confirms a belief,
No longer to offend...
Pretensions kept to keep.
Are millions of those,
Given freedoms to think.
Can not do this to use,
Common sense on their own.
As proof of this,
Has been made well known.
And shown the World over.
How easily,
Deception can manipulate...
People accustomed,
To accept...
What has been fictioned.
And sold to sell.
Bought to buy as truth!

'How can this happen? '
Questions the Tooth Fairy!