Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Is it your purpose to remain indifferent.
Thinking it an incentive and reason,
To participate with others...
In decisive divisions supporting conflicts.
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No longer discussed,
In debates to await...
One decision to make,
That will place the fates...
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It really does not matter,
Who chooses tricks to pick.
With a smooth strategy,
Undetected that is slick.
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When will it all cease.
The dieting on sugar coated,
Sweetened speeches.
Delivered from podiums and pulpits.
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The crisis has been identified.
And a wall is reported,
To be immediately needed.
At a cost to deepen a deficit so high,
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Racism, bigotry, indifferences, division.
Disparities, inequalities.
And entitlements supporting ignorance to believe.
Now the Wall is being advocated.
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Time has arrived,
To personalize and recapture...
One's faith with it taken,
To walk in it and not fake.
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Delayed and belated clarity.
Is still clarity to have.
Regardless of when it comes.
To open eyes, ears and minds when done.
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What happened to maturity,
Of those who once had it.
Expected to have in positions to lead.
And who is there left with it to prove,
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The less informed,
Choose to perform impressions to make.
Hoping feelings of inferiority kept,
Are not revealed openly to have this seen.
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