The Best Advice Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If you did not want and wish,
For that which appears to exist...
How did it get there?
What is its purpose?
And why did you not notice it,
Before you stop denying it was there?

Now and today...
You accuse me to say I'm the one not 'real',
For not wanting to protest with you in unity...
To have what has been there for all to see,
Removed to be improved!

But...
Wasn't it you who told me what I brought to offer,
Was not a community need?
Although you allowed others to profit,
From your stupidity.
While you witnessed to praise them for doing nothing.
To comment to others that I am the one crazy?

Remember saying to me...
I wasn't 'this' or not enough of 'that'?
Well...
I interpreted that to mean,
I should mind my own business.
And with the doing of it I have found,
That was the best advice you could have given to me.