Without Faking It Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Many have awakened too late to realize,
A wasting of a life done to prioritize...
Making attempts to impress others,
With a belief this is life to live.
Find to discover for themselves,
How others are equally just as pretentious.
And wish to cover up,
Insecurities they can not face.

Too often people like this,
Once had known others direct and honest.
Who chose to live basically.
And without faking it.
To know for them what happiness is.
But were dismissed by those 'in-the-loop'.
Dismissed for not being driven,
By success and its pretentiousness.

And today...
As false kept beliefs from many fade away,
Success and its meaning,
Has a different interpretation.
And a definition with far less pre-conditions.

Today?
As some have come to embrace reality.
The ones who have chosen to live their lives,
Basically to have peace of mind and happiness...
Known and with it shown to have commitment.
Can admit they feel a success has been achieved.
To leave behind those left,
With their impressions kept to keep.

And they are the ones,
Who seem to have become more reluctant...
To express the success they've obtained.
By addressing the fakeness,
Of their unfulfilled lives.
Although they are doing their best,
To maintain an outdated charade.