Inherited Deceptions Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

People today...
Are no longer anxious to vote,
As a privileged routine.
Acquired by their ancestors.
When voting had been a purpose.
With it done to reflect kept wishes.
To do to select those who represented,
Not only their dreams but also respect.

People today...
Have begun to become more demanding.
To realize and identify lies to live them,
On borrowed loans and increased debts.
To become too expensive and not effective,
For their delusions to keep in minds expected...
By those elected,
Making updated appearances...
In customed tailored costumes.
With familiar repeated promises made.

People today...
Have begun to discover,
An ignorance kept to stay from a truth to face...
Resulting to deliver more anguish and pain.
And for those who have inherited deceptions,
To reject the truth to disbelieve its existence...
Find that resisting against its presence,
Will remain the same regardless who promises...
What they can expect to have an effect.

And for those seduced by delusions,
Without solutions to correct their regrets...
Stay protesting against an ignorance,
Many prefer kept and left alone.
Since all quality of life and aspects of it,
Slip to slide...
From a known height to condone as promised.

People today...
Are no longer anxious to vote,
As a privileged routine.
Acquired by their ancestors.
When voting had been a purpose.
With it done to reflect kept wishes.
To do to select those who represented...then,
Not only their dreams but also respect.

'Oh, comeon.
Smell the coffee.
People today do not vote on ideals.
Or what appeals to standards and values,
To remember what they were.
People today have been sold on conflict.
And anyone heard to speak with hatred preached,
Will be the one qualified who best represents...
Lessons taught to them to teach. That's it.
All that other stuff to make up is pretentious.

And unfortunately...
People today no longer anxious to vote,
Are stuck in between deception or corruption..
From which to choose..
Or both if they should decide to remain,
Independently dependent on all the B.S.
To perceive themselves as being 'awakened'.
With it done without inheriting disappointment.'