Sold To Provoke Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

When a giving heart has emptied,
With a depleting of it to give more...
No one who has relied on lies,
To pursue the undoing of truth...
Should be surprised,
By cold shoulders and eyes to receive.
To disbelieve the reality of it.
Or argue to dispute,
Their participation in spreading...
Malicious gossip to perceive the doing of it,
Had been intended and meant...
To have come from an innocence.
Although admitting its continuance to say,
How other broken relationships...
Ended that way.
And those too sensitive to get over it,
Should learn how to laugh.
And stop taking life so seriously.
Especially,
When jokes sold to provoke have been told.