Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

The best way to generate an interest,
With a focus fixed on an enemy.
Is to create one.
With bits that are fed in doses that increase.
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Go get that hot coco cup,
And fill it up to sit and sip...
Since,
It's all about the feeling giving.
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If I had not been prepared early in life,
To appreciate and explore my differentness...
And develop an acceptance for it,
To like and observe everything unique...
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Kept boys,
Refusing to step...
Even for a few seconds away,
From playgrounds and corners...
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You are here to do what?
Accomodate me?
In the doing of what?
Doing my best to promote 'your' dreams.
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Maintaining to remain on a perch,
Idealized with lofty eyes...
That sustains with decades of comforts,
And entitlements fixed unchanged...
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Smothered under thick layers of lies!
Suppressed by deceptions,
That keeps them self obsessed...
To excuse with alibis.
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When I noticed my own shadow,
I needed no one or nothing else...
To validate my existence.
Hours at a time.
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Determine whatever it is you wish,
Between the available options left...
Provided to you to negotiate.
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Where is that 'was' we once had...
Then left behind.
That 'was' that does not exist for us,
Now.
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