Choice To Choose Image Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

People will continue to select,
Image over substance.
With this done to expect content.
And evidence that proves,
Their choice to choose...
Has more than shallowness to display.
Although this to later claim,
Had been their main priority...
Was not then to express,
When image to address it...
Seemed significant enough to deliver,
Competence, wisdom, and common sense.

You know...
The kind always depicted in movies made,
With a hero giving nothing more than image.
And substance shown not to suspect to fake.
Just like in the movies to imitate,
A reality to create.
While watching what is...
Faked to imitate and incompetently create,
Destroy the proof of truth and its existence.
With an expertise,
Documented throughout history few dispute.
Or the proof of the evidence,
Left discovered under a self inflicted destruction.

Yet,
With that repeatedly proven...
How greed to feast upon it.
And the image of it fed,
Will never betray the ones who believe...
They are entitled to ruin humanity.
And diminish the value of what it means,
To live feeling blessed to be a human being.
Regardless who rushes in at the last minute,
Adorned with cape, a stern chiseled face...
And a re-written script,
Does not make reality more convincing to live.
Or can replace those chasing rainbows,
As conflict, havoc and deception upon them drops.
Inflicted by the ones perceiving they can flee,
To safe havens constructed underground.
Where they are found,
Embracing...
The worthlessness of their deepest thoughts.