This Exposé Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Disconnected from depth and perception?
With a belief kept that only those lucky,
Do not sweat in anguish with tears to fall.
Or work at all but it is easy for them,
To sit back and receive accolades?
While they choose to chase rainbows,
Placed to pick and laid at their fingertips?
Well...
Let me add this to your judgement list.
With a few of my own remembered experiences.
And I will do my best,
Not to have any leftover embitterness still felt...
Detected as a representation of a wounded ego.

Not one step did I place to chase rainbows.
In fact, those who laid down traps,
And other obstacles on my path...
Will deny to this very day they did not say to anyone,
My time was spent doing nothing.
When they expressed no interest in anything I did do.
You know the ones?
Quick to belittle the activities done by someone else.
As long as they remain the center of attention.

Yet that day comes when they are the ones first to say,
They knew from the beginning success and achievement...
Might have been delayed but would come my way.
Because they believed in the struggling of my efforts.
Does this sound to you like a bunch of BS and jibberish?
It does to me too!

When I know for a fact,
I felt knives and staring eyes directed in my back.
With a comprehending to acknowledge,
If it was not for the faith to adventure alone...
I would not have been able to leave behind those devils,
Disguising themselves as self righteous angels.
Found scratching their heads seeking explanations,
How it was I had the strength to escape...
From every exit they blocked that I had erased.

The moral behind this exposé?
It isn't necessary to tell others what you do everyday.
Love that which you wish to keep protected.
With the doing of it to become eventually revealed.