Once Abstracted Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Once abstracted to derail truth,
And facts to keep off track...
To leave many absent-minded,
With preoccupied self centered wishes.
Has returned to destroy effectively,
Delusions believed...
Would always be protected and kept.

Painful are these realities weakening,
Investments made to strengthen fantasies.
Hearts breaking and shakened,
By an onslaught of facts.
Destroying all kinds of relationships,
To never again have them mend.
Or return back to those abstractions.