#pretense

I taught myself things you never did;

"How dare you guilt me for not sticking around

As if you ever did for me?

I'll leave you in the dark with a broken flashlight

You left me with a choice and a pretense"

What a waste of breath, waste of tears, waste of words.

What good of these deeds and words when one is already six feet below the surface, waiting for them to rot under the pile of soil and withered leaves?

By faith we are broken, broken by the expectancy of a Being not bothered by the poverty of this world, but Their Own tendency to be praise-kinked by Their believers who suffers in Their Name, ass-licking through faith as if those regards are heard, but fell into the dead air and sighed to the deaf ears of those so-called servants of faith whose appetites for the glory of their Gods satisfy their souls—

"God provides all!"

They say, and yet, truth be told...

Reality slaps when their stomachs grumble and they have nothing to eat but their own dampened breaths of hunger gasping the warm breeze of the Earth, and nothing to drink but to swallow their salivas up to the point of their throats drying, and with that a constant wondering to where and what to eat, waiting for a Good Samaritan who will going to pass by their way and give them leftovers because their benefactors are also poor folks like them, given the fact that they gave way to generosity, as they always speak of on their preaches of the Verses heard by their own people of fellow faithhood.

Reality-touched delusions of self-asceticism in order to justify faith are deadly, and to this day, considered as a collateral damage.

Trump Weird News - The Gilded* Presidency

*Based On Pretense - Deceptively Pleasing

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

Steve Martin

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Let's start calling things as they are instead of pretending life is what we wish it could be.

We can change things in our lives but only through effort - not pretense.