Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You can not be 'that',
When you need to be 'here'.
To take care of 'this'.
With a ridding of kept expectations,
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One successful way,
To climb out of a ditch...
Is to first be aware,
Where it begins...
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A dropping from the top.
To not give up or stop,
Takes a courage done.
Not known by everyone.
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Until those quiet hours come,
Before dawn and midnight passes.
Peace to know it as it is to last,
Will be kept as a wish.
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Lieing is difficult to stop.
Especially...
If the doing of it,
Has become a part of one's life.
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I stay interested in their lives.
The youth.
Exploring their individuality.
I stay with a kept interest.
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Try, maybe and if.
Words picked by those convinced,
Using them prevents...
One's conscious feeling of negativity,
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The popularity of disgusting politics,
Has taken to new heights...
The rise of incompetence.
Welcomed as a representation of significance,
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I could never be the one to say to others,
'How I live my life with it done,
Should have no affect on you.'
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Just because I can show I care,
Does not mean I am less aware...
Of who it is that takes me,
And my caring to show for granted.
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