Signs Of These Times Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Today many stay refusing to interpret,
The signs of these times.
And messages from them to get.
While excuse makers and instigators,
Continue to benefit...
From an array of delusions.
As they pick which ones best for them fits.

Some have chosen the obtaining of money.
To perceive they can pay to erase displays,
Of their obnoxious ignorance.
With a doing as if,
It is an honor to be thoughtless.
And no one should become upset.
But instead condone with acceptance of it.
With a pride to be able to excuse the abuse.
And anything they do or say.
Like many joining forces.
To become labelled social illiterates.
Deteriorating in mind.
As a quality of life further declines.

And the required prerequisites,
Seem not to be...
Having qualifications to correct and fix,
The causes preventing this mental devastation.
But a seeking of those,
Capable to represent...
A degrading of a society.
And a culture so envied.
That protecting it and its decadence.
Should be kept as everyone's priority.