Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

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3841.
Nothing To Do With Fear

I use to fear the unknown.
Until I was shown each day I live,
From the moment I was born to face steps...
I had to accept to take I had never taken before,
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3842.
Smile Like The Others

What IS going on?
Has everyone become insane?
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3843.
Entertained And Distanced

The expense of keeping minds entertained and distanced,
To sustain a maintaining of those frivolities kept...
Has become more prioritized than the realities lived.
And those who oppose and protest,
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3844.
Adjustments Are Not Easy

Adjustments are not easy to welcome.
Especially when they arrive unexpectedly,
With no other choice but to have them done.
Adjustments immediately are rejected by everyone.
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3845.
What It Takes To Be Decisive

Very few who have lived their lives,
Pursuing in public view what it is they do...
Have been exempt from being criticized.
Or unaware of what they have tolerated,
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3846.
Aged Excuses

Aged excuses to use and betray common sense,
Have been the same excuses made today to make okay...
A repeating of what has happened in the past,
With a doing that has established the building of fences.
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3847.
Known And Not Overblown

Left embarrassed and still they protest,
Against the facts revealed to leave no one to guess.
But they are not the ones,
To have endured a suffering felt that had come.
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3848.
A Composite Of Your Dismissed Wishes

Really?
You wish for me equality.
And an array of opportunities from which to pick?
But you first want me to become qualified,
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3849.
People Will Deal With Emotions

What has been done to others to do,
Has been done...
To others to do.
With a doing to get over.
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3850.
A Commonplace Activity

It has become a commonplace activity,
To denounced as if to censor...
Those who pronounce a truth to announce.
Although a doing of it with little resistance,
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