Teaching The Benefits Of Conflict Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Teaching people how to fight,
With it done day and night...
Has been the greatest invention,
Those remaining limited in mind have created.
However...
Those with minds remaining confined to limits,
Have yet discovered a way to prevent their creation...
From increasing in a mental illness witnessed.
To keep it defined as sanity.
And this becoming more recognized,
By the ones refusing to give up their consciousness...
Believing they must accept this to survive happy lives,
Aren't so willing to continue...
To allow permitted conflicts for them to exist.

'We live to destroy threats of our enemies.
To protect the interests of our children.'

~And teaching the benefits of conflict,
Provides a peace they will know to keep...religiously?
Or will they keep religious beliefs they must fight?
With a purpose to create and ignite conflicts? ~

'Oh no. No.
With others.
Not themselves.'

~I see.
And if this is 'not' clear to me to comprehend,
All children will comprehend this immediately? ~

'Of course.
That's why teaching the benefits of conflict,
Is important for them to understand...early.'

~And making it important, religiously!
I got it.~

'Whew.
I'm glad you do.
For a minute I was beginning to question my own values.'

~What you do makes perfect sense.~

'It does? '

~Of course.
As long as you find a way to keep it justified.~