Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

For many years I have known of you!
And in those years,
I feel I don't know you at all.
I've invited you into my home...
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With a call to respond,
I imagine that is what a writer...
Of poetic verse does.
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Desperate measures taken,
To improve what one has neglected...
Only reflects upon one's incompetence,
One has refused to accept...
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You made choices in your life.
With accusations made to others,
That I believed I knew 'everything'.
And if that was remotely true...
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Unsuited!
From you that's what I use to believe.
I wasn't suited,
To be near you or your company.
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Remember,
I should not be the feeder
That initiates your creativity.
I express from the depths of my heart.
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Depending on things,
With a limited purpose...
To please and feed a mind teased.
And eventually exchanged,
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A sliding into despair can be avoided,
If one dares not to accept it.
And embrace these lessons taught.
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I took the long way home,
To know what I had.
To know what in me wished,
And
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Gamed!

Issues they keep,
Are transparently weak.
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