Leaving Them With A Choice Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

When certain people refuse to listen,
With nothing to comprehend or learn...
Why continue to waste time and unheard words?
What point is there to be made,
When a herd out of control...
Are addicted to a repeating of a shown defeat.

When certain people refuse to listen,
But later find it important to prioritize...
Arguing amongst themselves with denials to rely,
Yet criticize those ignoring them...
For not paying attention to lies and alibis.
Or leaving them alone to be fools to condone.

It should be remembered,
After enduring mindsets fixed in a mix like this...
To witness and experience the existence of it,
Leaving them with a choice they have made...
To believe such ignorance benefits and attracts,
Will always have them finding someone to attack...
Who expresses there is an alternative to life they could live.

Leaving them with a choice like this,
With tightly closed and unmoving lips...
To then turn a back to distance from this,
May offend them.
But what is kept to progress and with forward steps,
Is a decision made one keeps to remain peaceful.