Who Sees What And From Where Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

We are both on the same planet.
Perhaps not to experience the same environment.
Or endure familiar philosophies,
Taught to teach with a keeping of beliefs.

We may even be from the same hometown,
And not accept what is observed.
You may see it as a process to stay uninvolved.
With a decision to make to see me as foolish,
To speak upon that which you have no concern.

We are both on the same planet.
Perhaps not to experience the same environment.
Or endure familiar philosophies,
Taught to teach with a keeping of beliefs.

And I...
Have never regarded my observations as philosophy.
For some reason you believe me to be an 'idealist'.
And for whatever it means...
My vision can not delude what I perceive is reality.

We may even be from the same hometown,
And not accept what is observed.
You may see it as a process to stay uninvolved.
With a decision to make to see me as foolish,
To speak upon that which you have no concern.

I may not hear the bombs.
I may not feel the suffering of those left alone,
To bleed on streets.
I may not have a child who has died needlessly.
I may not know what it's like,
To flee with a need to seek shelter and eat.
But...
We are both on the same planet.
Perhaps not to experience the same environment.
Or endure familiar philosophies,
Taught to teach with a keeping of beliefs.
And once the doing of this is out of anyone's view...
Guess which reality kept,
Will no longer be theirs to either believe in or keep.
A doing sustained,
Will not remain to be kept prolonged.
No matter who has or has 'not' expressed concern.

You see...
From where you and I sit,
Is not the center of the Universe.
You see...
We are visitors given limited existence.
Not that which has created it,
That can decide any minute it wishes...
To eliminate this to make something much better.
With a forgetting quick who sees what and from where.
And to disregard who has rights to fight for 'it',
Whatever that 'it' may be.
Or religious affiliation to worship myths and fantasies.