Living Right Across The Street Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

It is impossible for those kept delusioned,
And fantasized all their lives...
To understand reality and the meaning,
Of its truth to apply it if it is gone unrecognized.

People become shocked and traumatized by it,
When the world they've been taught to worship,
And embrace has been introduced to so many...
Who then refuse to accept truth and its existence.

Right in the midst of their sheltered environments,
To either ignore or too blind to see denial for what it is.
And fed they are addictions cheap and full of escapades,
Available and easy for anyone to get and keep minds frayed.

'We've seen this in the movies and on TV.
But never in our wildest dreams could we believe,
Monsters depicted like the ones we've seen...
Would be as close as living right across the street.'

It is impossible for those kept delusioned,
And fantasized all their lives...
To understand reality and the meaning,
Of its truth to apply it if it is gone unrecognized.