To Remain Maintaining One's True Identity Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

To remain maintaining one's true identity,
With a dignity to pride and not to hide it.
Or attempt to disguise what's felt inside,
Is a difficult undertaking...
For those who appreciate what it takes,
To be real to feel it and not truth to fake...
With hopes to escape from being discriminated.

Today for whatever reason to explain,
Many are persuaded to lie to themselves.
With an ease to deceive to be someone else.
And not find any opposition,
From those also pre-conditioned...
They can be whomever whenever they please,
With a convenience those oppressed...
Are not given the same opportunity,
To address, express or confess it to be accepted.

To remain maintaining one's TRUE identity,
With a dignity to pride and not to hide it...successfully!
Or attempt to disguise what's felt inside...purposely!
Is a difficult undertaking,
For those who appreciate what it takes...
To keep a steadfast determination kept undenied,
That is real to feel felt and not to fake using alibis.