Not Yet Officially Banned Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Not Yet Officially Banned



Not yet officially banned,
Are kept old standards.
To have exhausted their purpose,
Through many life spans...
Aging to stale.
Although many wish them to stay,
To renovate with facelifts.
And pay to have their monuments,
Sprayed to cleanse where pigeons sat...
Doing their business to be seen in the act.

Not yet officially banned,
Are old standands to remind and understand...
A priority to valued many refuse to let go.
Even though these times we live show,
That which has expired...
Is dead and from death,
Only ignorance is left to grow.

But...
Once minds are left behind,
They dies and do not grow.
Like a rose that blooms to then be picked,
It dies and doesn't grow.
Nor do people who resist change,
Should expect to get...
Encouragement that nourishes,
When the evidence of it is nonexistent.

Not yet officially banned,
Are old standards practiced religiously.
Not officially banned,
But enforced to endorse...
Are kept traditions to keep minds limited.
Not officially banned,
Is an ignorance that remains...
Accepted to protect,
Officially as if...
A future that is here requires permission,
To live it.

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