Throwback Stances Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Taking throwback stances,
From those yesterdays distanced...
And minds since then long gone,
Maybe thought of as a remedy to cure the ills...
Of all the conflicts today spilling all over,
The streets seen and witnessed to be sickened...
By a tolerance allowed to decrease,
A remembered quality of life.

Taking throwback stances to shaken those asleep,
With a hope a sense of consciousness...
Will find these times are seriously faced,
To undertake an eliminating of faking...
The realities of life to live that are not simply,
Just going to fade away.
But has fiction deluded truth to have truth disobeyed?
Have minds become too fantasized and too long crazed?

And appearing from their addicted delusions,
Are those with their throwback stances protesting in streets.
Protesting for a need of assistance to keep,
Their fantasized lives intact as facts begin to crack...
Half closed eyes to open wide to realize,
They have become jeopardized by allowing their own ignorance.
An ignorance that continues to thrive.
But those with their throwback stances deny,
A dire need to self examine to put an end to asking questions...
As to why their lack of discipline, respect for others and lost dignity,
Is the result of 'feedback' that has come upon them to attack.

And one day,
They just may...
Understand that,
By beginning to face and not be chased away from the facts!