Grounded And Stable Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

People want to keep their lives to live,
Grounded and stable.
Whether or not those shocks that shift,
Have long been made.
People want to keep their lives to live,
On sold rock.
With holding onto times long gone...
That are not.

People make their ultimatums.
People protest,
Taking that next step.
People make their ultimatums.
Expecting what they do,
Will be effective.
People make their ultimatums,
To believe what they do will leave...
Decisions made in their favor,
To deliver relief to lessen their grief.

People want to keep their lives to live,
Grounded and stable.
Whether or not those shocks that shift,
Have long been made.
People want to keep their lives to live,
On sold rock.
No matter if their walls are shaking,
Around them, nonstop!

People make their ultimatums.
People protest,
Taking that next step.
People make their ultimatums.
Expecting what they do,
Will be effective.
People make their ultimatums,
To believe what they do will leave...
Decisions made in their favor,
To deliver relief to lessen their grief.

People want to keep their ways the same.
Believing they can make ultimatums.
People can't accept these times have changed,
Everyday until that clock stops...
From tick to tocking.
And no one living can block,
As if they have both key and lock.

People want to keep their ways the same.
Believing they can make ultimatums.
People can't accept these times have changed,
Everyday until that clock stops...
Its tick to tock.
No one can block.

People want to keep the lives to live,
Grounded and stable.
People want to keep their lives to live,
On sold rock.
No matter if their walls are shaking,
Around them to be moving.
No matter if their walls are shaking,
To move to do nonstop.
No matter if their walls are shaking,
To prove they will be moved.

Nobody lives to be...
Grounded and stable.
Everybody ultimately will be,
Tossed about.
Nobody lives to be...
Grounded and stable.
Everybody ultimately will be...
Stopped by the clock.