Nonexistent Respect Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

What is reflected,
By the effects of truth...
Can not be censored,
From it being witnessed.
Or promote truth,
As a betrayal to portray it...
For purposes to create,
A nonexistent respect for all life.

Temporary empathy with a sympathy shown,
Does not erase the facts...
Of a known indifference and racial attacks.
Condone by those believing themselves,
Entitled to perform the continuation...
Of their evil deeds enacted upon others.

No matter how a charading to disguise,
Values and standards exclusively kept...
By the ones who reject and object,
To the appearances and cultures...
Residing within and/or near their own doorsteps.

And yet,
Profess and declare a window dressed greatness.
While masquerading a hatred to bait it,
To deceive behind smoke screens...
A conducting of schemes to demean.
As a choice to choose divisions.
And unwarranted historic bigotry.
To sell and excuse unexamined insecurities...
Kept religious beliefs protect,
Although not met to keep them faithfully.