Kept Left To Leave Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A mess left kept,
Or kept left to leave...
To know it for what it is,
Needs no one to claim changes...
With steps they will take,
To ensure what they do...
Improves a difference in appearance,
Of a mess for decades left that way.
Especially...
If that difference to be seen,
Has a mess spreading so obscene...
And too obvious that steps taken to make,
Are around it to ignore.
Afterall...
People become upset to then protest,
Any changes that will involve...
Their precious memories to dissolve.

'Uh...
Like the others who have made to us,
Promises.
Your steps to take are not that different.'

~Oh. I with you disagree.
You see...
My steps to take around the mess,
Have taken me much longer to do.
And if you notice,
Others who made their steps to take before...
Can not be compared,
To the ones promised to you I would make.
I have listened to comprehend,
What your expectations are not to end.~

A mess left kept,
Or kept left to leave...
To know it for what it is,
Needs no one to claim changes...
With steps they will take,
To ensure what they do...
Improves a difference in appearance,
Of a mess accepted and approved.

~Now...
The expense of the boots,
To all of you I have issued...
Should calm your fears,
I have no intentions...
Of eliminating your precious memories.~

'And...
WHERE are the boots? '

~They have been ordered.
And I promise you,
They will be arriving soon.~