With Minds Singed Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

There is a shallow mindedness...
That keeps some wishing,
In reminiscing times missed!
Gone and yet meant for them to linger.
Bringing back a hopefulness...
That do not in these moments exist!

Refusing to live in the 'Here and Now'.
Carrying furrows upon their brows.
Struggling...
To drag yesterday into tomorrow!
With sorrows that do not comfort them.
In a deluded safety!
They can borrow again,
And again!

Dead on arrival are their lost pleasures.
And treasures losing luster!
Since what comes...
Dumbfounds the traumatized.
Shutting all lips and stunning surprised eyes.
Silencing those who once criticized.
And paralyzing those who run and defy...
With minds that still try to hide,
Their evil ways.

Those days are fading!
Quicker than false prayers are prayed...
To lay restrictions upon those betrayed.
With a wish to seduce new victims.

Those who reach each day
Seeking truth...
From their suffered abuses,
From fools using excuses.
Annointed by those who introduced them,
To these misdeeds!
That reduce them to express such indignities!
Will find that very few of them will remain.
Or succeed.

Gaining nothing that will sustain their delights.
Dissolving in flames
With minds singed day and night.
And nothing hinged onto a reality...
Kept flourished to nurture,
These false identities.
Coming for them to an end!

A 'changing' is upon us.
And all dimensions will be revealed.
A healing will take place...
As the year 2012 approaches,
With a widened understanding.
And an assortment of strange
And different faces...
We will learn to embrace!
Or become lost in an ignorance,
That is slowly being erased and replaced!
Dimensions are merging,
Whether or not we accept...
These changes taking place.