Indebted To Pretensions Kept Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A collective participation,
Has been clipped away...
By effective divisions,
Sold and use to betray...
Any progressive advancement,
Intended to portray a greatness faded.

Today?
A focus is shifted on a daily basis.
Priorities have tumbled,
For the sake of impressions to make.
And people are more interested,
In things to possess.
Although few confess they are stressed by it all.
With mindsets focused on keeping good credit,
Even though the entire economy is indebted...
To pretensions kept.

A collective participation,
Has been clipped away...
By effective divisions,
Sold and use to betray...
Any progressive advancement,
Intended to portray a greatness faded.
A greatness that had been related,
To creating opportunities for all to believe.
Not manipulated by devices to undermine and deceive,
An unconscious bleeding of what had been valued.