Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

People make other people wicked.
And teach them ways to be evil.
No one is born spewing venom.
Or cussing to speak words disgusting.
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Truth to know it lived,
Never fails to free a mind.
From adding to a list,
Of excuses to make and pick.
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Bees have not only been,
The only creatures to have experienced...
A collapse of their colonies.
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Logic to have it.
Few can claim,
A knowing what it is.
Or where an example of it exists.
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Your happiness to know it.
And what pleases you to satisfy.
Has already been accepted and approved,
By 'you'.
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Too comforting,
Racial tensions have become.
Making more senseless,
The ignorance of it solicited.
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I want you calm and peaceful.
And living unafraid of truth to face it.
Or your faith to keep,
Deceived as a weakness.
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Truth to want it,
From others to get.
On our terms to wish it given.
Is quite different,
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Blasted strategic paths.
Endorsed to support,
Conflict, confusion and division.
And cheered on by those,
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What is it about truth and facts,
That has people feeling...
They have been attacked.
To refuse and accept reality.
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