Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

The only time people seem capable,
Of admitting a truth they seldom refuse to do...
Is when they have run out of others to use,
With a blaming to claim them to be...
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As expectations and having regrets,
Come and not from them to go...
There are some people who have shown others,
Disrespect and this done for decades...
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The unconscious,
With their shut and vacant minds...
Are not often cautious,
When making inappropriate and offensive comments...
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How many eyes will remain closed,
Or opened but refuse to see...
A creating of dilemmas with such frequency,
That an acceptance of a negligence...
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Never will there be an accepted and credible,
Life lived on other planets to exist.
This would reveal a truth that had been deluded,
By those with enforced and kept beliefs...
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Be you uplifted with those gifts you get.
Keep them polished with unrelenting persistence.
Never be persuaded to abandon them to quit.
Since jealousy and envy will always be there to insist,
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I can today admit it.
I had been trained to be tolerant,
Of environmental nonsense.
With it believed to be a blessing,
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And suddenly prevented,
To receive.
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With ease,
It isn't
To confront any task and complete those tests.
And with wishes to succeed,
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Where were you,
When I needed your comfort?

'I then had no time to give.'
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