With A Waiting For Relief Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

You will have to leapfrog over past decades,
To understand with a participation done...
Just the beginning,
Of these days and times upon us...
That have come.

If you had lived on the sidelines like some,
You have been addicted to disbelief.
With a waiting for relief...
To be freed of those sights,
Paraded before you and seen.

And while you stood there conscious of it,
A voice inside of you that should have been ignored...
Told you what was observed,
Would disappear with no need to explore.
But an exploration to uncover the cause and effect...
Has left a permanent affect,
With others of the same mindset regretting.

You may have expressed to have had a faith...
But you and others,
Processed pretentions with motions to fake.
And...
Did not walk the talk,
To eliminate or balk against applied disparities.