Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If truth was a factor,
There'd be no backup to go after.
If,
Truth was a factor.
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Did. Did you do a panic.
With a frantic...
Undoing panic?
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And when you come,
There's no retreating.
When you come...
There is no leaving from me.
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I admit,
Sometimes I do...
Feel not good enough.
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If not for you,
My eyes would not be open wide...
To view things the way I now do.
If it had not been for you.
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I appreciate your assessments.
And the time you have given.
But guess what?
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You are right.
I have been rather harsh on you.
I should ignore you altogether.
Like the times you sometimes do.
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Too controlling.
Many set out to prove from birth,
They could and would with a showing of self worth...
Fake to erase the slightest mistakes they've made,
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You insisted the mist,
I should miss...
In the midst,
Of intimacy.
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Things have gotten old.
And,
Things have gotten...
Better reminisced to live.
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