What is goin on here? <br /> <br />I have never seen so many people, <br />Walking around with limps. <br />Using walkers and canes, <br />As if to prevent them from falling. <br /> <br />And people with prescriptions, <br />To lessen their mental afflictions. <br />And the atmosphere is thick with sadness. <br />What addictions did they get to have them like this? ' <br /> <br />'Lieing about others and to themselves. <br />With a denying of a reality to confront as is. <br />As long as they can get anyone, <br />To approve their delusions... <br />They are happy with their dysfunctions. <br />And delight in expressing their illnesses.' <br /> <br />WHY do you insist on remaining negative? <br /> <br />'Oh. <br />Forgive me. <br />Is there another version you would like to hear? <br />I do have one I keep to fantasize my observations, <br />For those nonaccepting... <br />With closed minds and blocked ears.' <br /> <br />Yeah. <br />Please. <br />Let me hear that one. <br />Lighten it up a bit. <br /> <br />'Once upon a time, <br />When the little girls and boys were told... <br />They could do as they please until they grew old. <br />And... <br />What it is they should do as long as they should live, <br />Is to ignore the truth since truth is wicked. <br />And running away from it is what they should do <br /> <br />Since a listening to it, <br />Came from those disgruntled. <br />You know, <br />Misfits! <br />And they should regard people like this, <br />Noncomformists and weirdos and mentally sick.' <br /> <br />Now 'that' is the version I prefer. <br /> <br />'You are not alone.'<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-those-nonaccepting/
