Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

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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What IS going on?
Has everyone become insane?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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