Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

What would you like for me to say?
I feel your pain?
Or...
Forgive me,
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I enjoy my privacy immensely.
It's like an unexpected calm that comes,
After experiencing a series of Earthquakes.
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You helped build up my life.
To see dawn,
From tops of mountains.
To adopt without doubt...
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No tears delivered,
From eyes known to cry.
From eyes open wide and dried...
A sparkle comes.
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When something isn't...
Why empower it with concern?
What lesson is there learned,
By choosing to discuss...
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NOW what are they protesting?

'They have come to protest,
That the government...
Has shown them less interest.'
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Why is there so much attention given,
To the 'could-have-beens' but weren't mentioned...
For positions they might have held.
But decisions made were determined with intention...
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I wish I can again get this year,
The happiness I received last Christmas.
And the many years before.
To share and toast,
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Those who say,
Children today who do not have the benefit...
Of growing up with both parents at home.
Or at least accountable and responsible guardians...
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They've been taught to cast blame,
Responsibility and the game of placing shame...
Upon the shoulders of someone else.
To free themselves of guilt and its association.
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