Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

What are you doing?

'Pushing buttons.
It should be obvious.'
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You may dislike me for your own reasons,
Unknown to me as you continue to do it.
But don't feel alone.
Eventually I will find some dislikes of my own,
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Running to escape to get away?
Who is it and what,
Does the chasing?

When you say you've got to get away,
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The teaching of hatred and conflict,
Does not end with a flip of a switch.
The teaching of hatred to divide produces,
An increase of conflict...
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If a doing to be done is not at one's best,
What point does one make...
To believe a doing of one's mediocrity,
If one is conscious of it with this known...
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Nobody ever can be better than you.
Unless you express this and confess.
Nobody ever can be better than you.
Unless you address this and with regret.
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Within 28 days,
They will squeeze in reasons...
To celebrate those who sacrificed,
Their lives in the doing to prove...
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It's difficult to drop to stop,
What's out of control.
Once it goes downhill,
It slips too fast from a grasp...
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Those who repeatedly rely upon immature techniques,
With expectations to receive the same results achieved...
Are those who can be found weeping in disbelief,
To discover few have tolerance...
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I...
Choose you to be,
That someone...
I can trust.
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