Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

What support can be given to a stubbornness.
One that is in direct opposition,
To what is correct.
Many have chosen to sit on the side of regret.
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Look,
It's like this...
I keep in touch with you,
Because I love you.
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Remember needs.
Focus not on familiar pleas of stress.
The ones identified as if invited guests.
Wish them away in mental protest.
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Why is it important to you now,
To hear my voice?
When it was you,
Who made not listening to me...
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Everyone here,
Received the same guidelines.
From the same 'source'.
With not a one amended.
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Do you really want it?
Do you really need it?
You don't!
Do you?
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It was only 'after' they acknowledged me,
That you accused me of not telling you.
Whatever it was they had to mention.
But...
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Release from locked up cages,
Aged.
Release from locked up cages,
Aged.
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We admit our guilts.
And there to judge...
Come those self righteous.
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So many are caught between the accepting of truth.
Or,
Keeping impressions intact with pretensions.
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