Unusual, Out Of It And More Than Just Different Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Only those who had once been depicted,
Unusual, out of it and more than just different...
Have come today to witness,
Those who had lived such steady and normal lives...
Crying loudly over their values and standards,
Being diminished, updated or demised to not recognize.

And the ones they had once made to feel ostracized,
Seem to have adjusted and accepted to being rejected.
With the acknowledgement that being declared different,
Has had for them advantages to benefit.
Without being around those who can not escape,
From their self inflicted restrictions.
Limited to beliefs no longer in existence.

And what can all expect next?
The presence of an effective higher consciousness,
No one will or can refuse.
Since it seeks from no one an approval or acceptance,
To leave behind minds found to be insignificant and limited.