Without Their Involvement Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Often there is a call for change.
As if a revolving annual awareness comes.
By the ones protesting against,
The ineffectiveness...
Of that which is in place.
To go ignored and unsupported.
Like other changes to have been made.
Critiqued and discredited.
For reasons to leave them,
Successfully mothballed and abandoned.
By the very ones,
Heard to vocalize their wondering of why...
Steps towards progress,
Seem to be denied them to validate.
Yet...
A progress that takes patience to develop,
Before eliminating them to advance.
Has few to nourish them with encouragement.
But will insist such progress can exist,
Without their involvement.
Or could become enhanced.
While they sit with wishes,
Someone else does it.
To again criticize their efforts.
And their endeavors made,
Until they too...
Become accused,
For doing what they choose.
And abandoning those,
Who find time to waste.
Sitting with beliefs,
Advancements made takes...
Protesting against,
How it is done.
Where the ideas come from.
And who is qualified,
With credentials to prove themselves...
Worthy of being irritated.
By those who only know,
Entitlements to receive.
And...
The meaning of ungratefulness to express.