In Noisy Self Assertive Swagger Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Reached!
Has been the peak of intrigue.
And blindly followed by those schemed.
Believing their leaders,
Were the ones of utmost integrity.
With a creating of divisions.
Between the people unaware,
They had implemented their own despair.
To wish it and hope,
Those 'others' would be the ones...
Deceived to dupe and made the dopes.

Today...
It seems those folks,
Given permission to inflict conflict.
Done to perceive,
Themselves the benefactors of this.
Have begun to awaken to witness it reached.
How a scheme with them used to pretend,
A doing to leave them...
Tricked from the beginning.

Today...
It seems those same folks sit,
Observing their own leaders...
Debating amongst themselves,
As to who to blame their thoughtlessness...
In a public display.
That proves to all,
A lack of competence and common sense used...
Had never been theirs to possess.
And behind the mess,
They try to accuse on someone else.

And yet...
Who is it left?
Besides themselves.
To blame their selfish thoughtlessness.
With this done to validate.
And continue to sell and delude!
You?
Me?
Or the others used to be played fools.

Who is it left?
Still intrigued to believe,
Such a scheme to invent...
Had been a creation of those,
Limited and prevented...
From doing nothing else.
But accept themselves to be victims.
By those who insist,
Building walls and fences...
Will solve 'their' never ending issues.
To neither face nor admit they have.

Or...
Mature enough.
To rid the stuff.
Allowed with bluff and age old bluster!
In noisy self-assertive swagger.