Mandatory Doses

Observe the splits and divisions,
For what they are.
There is a decadent mindset,
Fighting to survive.

Fighting to defend its offensive outlook.
And wishing more to uphold a deluded sense of self.
With plots to keep their realities fantasized.
Driven to smother truths...
And bring light to cast upon a darkened way of life.

This incites a quickened end to a standard of living,
In need of massive psychiatric care.
Inflicted...
In mandatory doses.

Too crazed are they to be consciously aware,
Of the madness they have fed to breed!
This cancer feeds and kills.
Leaving this question to go unfulfilled...
'Who now is qualified,
To identify pride with added substantial substance? '

It is obvious that those who speak of experience...
Lack the knowledge to pass good judgement.
Unless incompetence has been an achievement?
And much of that has been reflective,
Of an illness swept away and kept...
In perceptions of having discretion.

Too lost are they to become outraged!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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