We Promised There Would Be A Return Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Why the somber and solem looks?
The dark suits?
And the meshed veils,
Covering the women's faces.

'We are celebrating the return to our values.'

This reminds me of a funeral procession!

'You have forgotten traditions once highly esteemed.
Soon we will return to them.
And it will be as if,
You had been awakened from a nightmarish scheme.'

I am sorry.
This is just too much darkness.

'You see! ?
How much discipline you have been missing?
We promised there would be a return.
And here we are.'

What you represent has an absence of fun!
In fact,
What you propose is quite scary.

'What is more important?
Image?
Or the implementation of rules and proper etiquette? '

Ugh.
Ugh!
MOMMY?