Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I don't find the need to apologize anymore,
To those who have expressed,
Their unconscious ignorance gone unaddressed.
I address 'that' immediately to let it be known,
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No matter who is elected to sit,
In a position to mend the healing...
Of existing wounds.
People who refuse to be held accountable,
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Undescribable it is,
To be and keep faithful...
To so many interests,
As if religiously possessed...
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You misunderstand,
With a disconnection from one thing misunderstood.
My interest in you had been as a mate.
With a sharing deep in honesty.
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When done.
And with an ease of it perceived,
Others may believe...
That a doing requires little or no effort.
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Hear me with your ears,
To open.
Let go of previous assumptions.
Do it to dump them.
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When and where,
Did a bombing done to increase peace...
Has this ever shown to be effective,
With a peace to keep.
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Behind the cart they'd rather be.
With a pushing it as they have been told.
Since the doing of it is historically fixed.
Just like the arguments,
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A hurting felt doesn't hurt less,
When one pretends an ignoring it...
Will make it end.
Nor does a kept bitterness self inflicted,
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If a fear of thinking and having intelligence,
Did not come to threaten the insecurities...
Of those only obsessed to thieve and feed,
Their need to see others bleed as they greed.
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