Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

When we live to learn and respect,
All benefits of life to us are given.
And we are able to succeed,
Through any circumstance.
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Little do they know,
Each season has an ending.
With one clean sweep...
What was no longer is to be!
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She wants it sugar coated.
To clip and paste...
Upon her fragile reality.
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The best way to inform those uniformed...
Is not to conform to an accepted normalcy.

In time there will be no need to debate,
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The country was founded on racist principles.
It is a fact many can not face.
And...
Here it is in 2009,
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Scathing?
That may be.
But none of it attempts to erase,
Or shy away from reality.
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Some folks stay miserable.
They could turn their efforts,
Into a viable industry.
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Refinancing dreams, illusions and schemes,
To keep delusions afloat...
Has cost them their visions of luxury,
To visit them with traumatic truths!
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Holding each other like this.
So close I wish,
We could smother.
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So many are burdened by demands,
Placed upon their shoulders by others.
It is encouraging to know...
Some people let them go.
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