Impressing To Be The Best Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Impressing to be the best today,
Just is not good enough for one to portray.
One has to have a stamina to tolerate with patience,
A sickness that is dismissed.

In these times we live with a quality of life diminishing,
People have become spoiled and depend on being catered.
With a belief their demands are deserving to do as they please,
To know later they will be given forgiveness.

And their misdeeds have caused tears to fall from eyes of others...
To have their neighbors, friends and family members disbelieving,
Someone expected to be one of 'them'...
Plots to leave them pleading on knees,
With a doing of it as if to druthers to have them suffer.

Too many accepting an easy life with entitlements,
And accustomed to deceiving to have everyone convinced...
Are now proving with this 'insight' mental illness amongst them,
Is a reality they have ignored yet witnessed to exist.
As it reflects their own afflictions a self examination all resist.

'No one knew what was going on?
Even though right in your view this madness was condoned,
And around you everywhere it is produced? '

~No.
No one knew.
No one had a clue anything was out of the ordinary.
We are as normal as everyone else.
Aren't we? ~