Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Unsettling are the changes,
Of the wind has been.
For those remaining uncertain,
When changes that have begun...
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These days lived,
Are not going to be remembered...
As award winning to praise.
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Made to keep effective everywhere,
Is a discrimination affecting...
Lives lived by those unaware,
How deep a bigotry that has left to leave...
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When one awakens with eyes wide,
Deciding they deserve a better life to live...
And this decision made replaces,
Another attempt to refuse one's doing...
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Let's romance our first,
And not our second thoughts of love.
To maybe caused and tossed about,
By doubt.
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It doesn't pay to take away,
One's dignity to smear and smudge.
After judging to conclude...
One is in need,
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It does not matter,
No longer to me.
What it was you had told to others.
With a doing to have them believe.
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Talents and skills to possess,
Guarantees no one...
A place to sit on a mountaintop.
With a listening to echoes,
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Just because you can't do it,
Don't mean it can't be done.
By anyone.
Just because you can't do it,
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I have grown less silent.
With so much that can be said.
I have grown less silent.
To notice too few care...
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