Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Alone and knowing it.
That's how it is,
When one is wishing to accomplish.
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People with selective memories,
Always want others not to remember...
What it was they had done.
Especially to those who have survived,
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If it should seem,
I appear to be free...
To laugh with happiness.
And share with others,
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Keeping up with appearances,
And striving to sustain a maintaining of an image...
Eventually becomes to be viewed as one's insanity.
Especially during these times,
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I have never understood,
Why some people would take it upon themselves...
To say or do things with evil intentions to another,
And not perceive whatever is done they do...
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People are often offended,
By a truth directly spoken.
And often people incriminate,
Those who speak their own minds.
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I did not wish to play the villain.
You insisted repeatedly,
That I fit the part.
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Cultural and self hate issues,
Will remain to stay...
For those unable to face them to correct.
With a choosing to view them not as foolish,
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All that you see...
My head.
My eyes.
My lips.
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