It Was Never Intended

It was never intended,
For communities to build fences...
To seclude and isolate themselves.

But to a very few,
This has become a benefit...
To witness the infighting and conflicts.
As if delighted in the condoning of struggle and strife!

However...
This witnessed benefit,
Has become a saddened sickness...
That has afflicted the doers of this,
With a price ultimately they will pay.

A strength in unity was not perceived...
Even for themselves.
Not in this way that dismays.

It was never intended,
For communities to build fences...
To seclude and isolate themselves.

But to a very few,
This has become a benefit...
To witness the infighting and conflicts.

And...
The experience of remorse that decays,
Those days of brightness greed betrayed...
To lead one astray to seek a feeding,
Of another hunger one now wonders...
Could have been much more fulfilling!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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