Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Choosing to be in one's place,
Is a choice that one has made.
To regard one's decision as insignificant,
Without knowing one's experience...
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What you tell others you do for me,
And how you regard my presence in your life...
Are just mere words you use to entertain their attention.
What you say to others is not what I've witnessed.
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A foolish people,
Will always seek a validation...
To remain foolish as long as possible.
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The promotion of a nothingness,
To coverup insecurities...
Is as pronounced as those with them,
Who continue to make attempts to smother...
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Has it come time,
To place him back into the cage...
Master?
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Be relieved.
At least those criticisms,
Once directed to you...
Will not be as severe.
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You can take a look.
And take that look away.
But my eyes are opened wide...
Fixed on you,
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Yes a pauper knows a pauper.
And what they do.
Living on the city streets.
In snow or heat.
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It's not the threat of innovation,
They stay away from.
It is the people who have this,
They fear!
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The best way to ignore a persistent annoyance,
Without letting the consistency of it upset...
Is to acknowledge it with pleasantries.
And move on!
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