Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

A success sought to reach,
And kept to impress is a taught perception.
With a belief that achieving acceptance,
Also annoints one with a status that's attached.
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I am with it not to be without,
Those memories reminisced...
Of obstacles faced to experience them gone.
And expecting opposition,
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Will we ever come to realize with it recognized,
That existing hypocrisies...
Can not wish a greatness into place.
To be believed and/or achieved,
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A payment to become educated,
Is more a priority than expectations met...
With an effectiveness that guarantees success.
And success to guarantee with that achieved,
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Losing sleep I am not going to do.
Nor will I be pacing back and forth,
On a floor behind a closed door...
To wonder why you had ignored,
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If I was not an author with innovative thoughts,
On a mission to create my own compositions...
I 'suppose' I would be more motivated,
To solicit a need to read for inspiration.
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Once anyone begins to accept lies,
As their knowledge to obtain...
Without taking steps to investigate,
And verify what to them has been told...
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I pray everyday to keep my 'darkside' away.
With a staying peaceful.
And not have it teased to pieces,
Or from it to stray...
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I once had been told to fear ignorance.
And not accept its appearance,
Wherever it was I went.
And not knowing why,
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There are those with selective memories,
Who take it upon themselves to forget...
Those times others found to find,
To put aside their own interests...
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