Death Of Accepted Ignorance Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

A unity to wish without truth to embrace,
And face it...
Is not posssible.
Denials must be stripped away,
From where they exist.
With an honesty to reveal them to admit.
A unity to wish without deception permitted,
Strengthens those steps taken...
That eventually cements a unity felt by all.
To realize and be convinced of its presence.

Death of accepted ignorance brings with it,
Such enriching and rewarding changes.
Everyday our learned beliefs are challenged.
Everyday to be witnessed,
We can see without it told...
Who it is still attempting to hold onto,
Times that have gone.
We've seen them all doing free falls...
With a calling out their aches on a daily basis.

'And how are you, today?
How are you feeling? '
~The same.
Doing my best just to hang in there.
You know how it is.~
'Yeah.
You remind me of Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit'.'

Deaths of beloved family members and friends,
Finds us emotionally suffering heartache not to end.
And broken relationships are also difficult to leave.
With a knowing we must move on,
In our sorrow and grief...
From one unbearable day to the next.
Feeling guilt, remorse and sadness,
More that too painful to divorce from these realities.
As we seek to have others validate with their empathy,
Our choice to remain burdened.

Death of accepted ignorance brings with it,
Such enriching and rewarding changes.
If...
Faith we claim is allowed to retrain our kept beliefs.
To accept that the death of anything,
Does not end but begin new and fresh discoveries.
Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall...
Has us all within these seasons to witness changes.
Yet we continue with our own kept ignorance,
To complain about our sustained afflictions...
To believe changes can be made by conflicts we create.

A unity to wish without truth to embrace,
And face it...
Is not posssible.
Denials must be stripped away,
From where they exist.
With an honesty to reveal them to admit.
And there can be no unity,
If death of accepted ignorance is not committed.

What was to be to leave behind with truth defined,
And accept...
Is the challenge.