Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

In phase one,
Life began.
And experiments begun.
In phase two,
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Why with your eyes fixed on me,
And my every step.
With suspicions to keep me suspect,
Has not eliminated your life with threats.
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What do you want?
'A life.'
What do you need?
'A life.'
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Free me,
From this false reality.
Too much I've sacrificed,
For the right...
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Someone has to lose,
In a game of egos played.
Someone has to leave feeling victorious,
To pump up a chest...
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The producing to introduce fear,
Only unleashes conflicts to chase.
To then hide in separate divisions.
With a uselessness of comparisons,
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We don't know who they are.

'Why?
Has anyone bothered to ask them?
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The missing of common sense,
Has proven to have gone unnoticed.
And as we live these days...
One only has to sit quietly to listen for it.
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If no one other,
Than the few who do...
Deposit their time to invest,
With expressed interests made...
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Does it really make any sense today,
To do things at one's best.
And...
Does it really make any sense today,
...