Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If you just give me freedom,
On me you know you can depend,
On me...
You can depend.
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You've got to know love.
Feelings crushed can not just be brushed over.
You've got to know love,
To know what love is meant to mean...
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Too many get their guns ready,
When they get in heat.
Just too many get their guns ready,
When they get in the heat.
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I can do without you.
But my life,
Without you...
I could not live.
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Digging real deep,
In empty pockets...
For a touch or a feel of return.
And a lesson's not learned,
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People like you,
Just don't get it.

'Get what? '
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Surviving natural disasters,
With the taking away of material things...
Treasured by those who turn up their noses,
On neighbors and others they 'had' believed,
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Lies lived,
Throughout decades and generations...
Of them being heard or told to listen.
Does not make them come true.
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For most of their lives,
They did exactly what they wanted.
And signs of change,
Were beginning to glow...
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So innocent then,
Were my public aggressions!
My willingness to connect,
All aspects of my identity...
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