Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Those maintaining their tight hold,
On traditions to believe...
From myths created as conceived,
Will always seek definitions to define...
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What an ongoing charade.
Openly displayed.
But quickly losing a significance,
With an influence that had been...
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Pretending reality does not exist,
Does not prevent the current events...
From making attempts to be as they are.
Without impressive excuses made to fake.
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Why can they NOT leave President Obama alone?
Is it because he is Black, attractive, factual and brilliant?
Or because his 'whiteness' is not airtight?
Has he not proven to achieve beyond expectations?
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Would I or could I be supportive,
Of a child of mine blinded by sex...
And barely in their teens,
To have yet experience life!
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The only thing that upsets me,
About those scandalous allegations...
That involved my sexual preferences,
Minced with spicy homosexuality?
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Bullets shot from guns to find...
A reason for a need to wound.

Bullets shot from guns to find...
Why minds are defending,
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What you do from your perspective,
Wont affect what I choose to condone.
And what you do as your objective,
Is what you select...
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Nothing remains the same without changing.
Even that which rises to the top,
Loses its grip to begin descending...
Until the bottom it drops.
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If it wasn't for measured time and kept distance,
Our minds would still not have differences...
To know the similarities we share that are there.
Only we can keep protected,
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