Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If claims are made,
A knowing when an argument has started...
Why is it heated to increase,
To include others that are innocent?
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How can the best of one's craft be determined?
And to what is it being compared?
Or what it takes that initiates a motivation,
With a change to move in another direction?
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My observations are never premeditated.
With a plan to only accept that which I believe.
I experience a witnessing,
As a student willing to learn.
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Another senseless public shooting.
Another day to depict someone crazed.
Another dismissing of entitlements and rights,
As to the reasons why people...
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Poisoned by their own habits,
And a lifestyle they value...
As a standard to achieve,
Has them in dire need of resuscitation.
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A feeling from one expressed,
And shown to another...
There is a caring that is addressed,
Is enough to leave one inspired...
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There are people who have had a need,
To create their own subservience.
It gives them a sense,
Of feeling powerful over others.
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The only thing left mysteriously kept,
By those denying they hide from truth...
Is what part of it do they believe,
They perceive goes undetected?
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Of course there are more,
Who should say less.
But given forums,
To address their expressions.
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A culture of violence,
Is getting more difficult to defend within.
As perceptions of a normalcy,
Once defined with an understanding...
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