The Hopeless Romantic Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

The hopeless romantic,
Refuses to see with clarity...
A reality to choose to ignore,
Delusions to explore them.

With the hope the results,
Are wholesome and comes to satisfy...
What the heart wishes.
And what the head comes to finally realize,
Is not a truth to expect.
But a temporary moment that arrives to affect,
Emotions kept to fantasize...
A life to live with wishes wanted,
To believe obstacles to remove to undo...
Can be done without facing,
Necessary changes needing for one to make.

The hopeless romantic,
Refuses to see with clarity...
A reality to choose to ignore,
Delusions to explore them.
To then justify excuses created,
And more alibis to use...
Others come to appreciate.
That will one day replace,
What the hopeless romantic can accept,
As a life to live the way they like it.
To have naysayers see and agree,
The hopeless romantic has been right.