Consent Lamented Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Long before,
What is noticed to witness.
The process of intention,
Had been meant to implement.
Dangerous and connected events.
And not done in shadows.
To cloak daggers and masks.
But in announcements made.
Approved to enact,
A doing to remove truth and facts.
Accepted and made convinced,

Leaving people to stand and applaud the act.
As their diminishing quality of life,
Takes a back seat.
After truth and facts laughed at.
Provoked from podiums and pulpits.
By preachers and political leaders.
Joking about that.
While deluding minds fantasizing prosperity.
Deceiving truth.
Deceiving honesty.
Just for exclusive profit to pocket.

And too late to undo,
What corruption does to seduce a craze.
And the entrapment given consent to lament...
Confusion, conflict, lawlessness and division.
Long before the process of intention meant,
Had been done not to notice.
In the public of places affecting all races.
Puppeted by a destruction of government.
And rules disobeyed by those who betray,
Structure, order and common sense.
Too late to lament it gone!