Lawrence S. Pertillar Concrete Poems

It should not take,
Multiple stumbles...
On the same sidewalk,
For anyone to begin to notice...
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The truth of the matter is this...
Your beliefs,
Are only as concrete...
As your convictions.
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We only become aware,
Of that which we are prepared to accept.
Prior to that we turn our backs,
Until the facts seem to begin to attack...
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From the beginning,
You initiated a chase.
The day we met,
I expressed a fondness for you.
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I am what it is you are not.
However...
Ironically,
What we both have in common...
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Believe in what you choose.
That has remained your policy.
Eventually you will accept the facts,
As they are.
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On my shoulder was a chip!
Growing to aggrevate others,
As I lived with it.
But learned I did to let it go.
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