Indebted to Vacant Pretensions

Untied from the madness of greed...
It becomes easier to breathe!
Doesn't it?

And those you believed were close to you...
Seem to leave one by one.
As if a planting of an extermination,
To rid you of blood sucking fleas has been done.

With no car or money to borrow...
What is your worth?
And remember when you thought of them,
As close as family?
A close knit of friends?

Observation is the key that will keep you peaceful.
As truth introduces the depth of once treasured friendships.
Remember...
Turning your back on materialism,
Is committing treason.
To those who sleep with capitalistic visions.

When it is percieved you have absolutely nothing left to leech...
Don't become upset!
By their rejection of your concepts.

One day you will see them in much regret!
When the 'nothingness' you now possess...
Have becomes treasures in their eyes.
This may come as a surprise.
But it shouldn't!

As repossessions of 'things' they obsess...
Are put into effect.
To leave them in a nakedness they did not expect.
Coming to bleed them of their consciousness and a way of life.
And indebted to vacant pretensions with bad credit!
They all seem to now have in common.
But reluctant to express their points of view.
About you or anyone one else these days.

For some reason their priorities have drastically changed.
Isn't it stranged how they have come to victimize themselves?
And you now own outright...
Without liens attached!
An abundant peace of mind.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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