Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

No one can enforce another,
To see what their mind continually skips.
Whether done purposely or by habit,
No one should feel obligated to do this.
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There are those filled to the brim,
With belief...
All they have to do is charade pretense,
And their masking faces will be accepted.
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When people have to be made,
To see and be convinced...
That the keeping of other human beings,
Stifled and oppressed AND limited...
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Finding others to ridicule,
Because of the way they speak.
Walk and present themselves,
With a dignity commonly found in places...
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Those who have never lived alone,
Have never lived to know reality.
Or aspects of it,
To enbrace what the facing of obstacles...
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Never wish something negative,
Upon someone else deserving or not.
Or keep those feelings embittered,
With a harboring to become directed.
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To deliberately take away,
That which only God has given to create...
Is an act of of premeditated selfishness.
Is there another way to observe what takes place?
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Not one word from me did you hear,
About your lifestyle being in a state of shambles.
Or my saying anything about your way of life lived,
Sitting on the edge of oblivion.
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I remember being defined,
By...
How I spoke with a wish to be understood.
Pronunciating words with a clarity.
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It is difficult to agonize through change.
Or to let go of those comforts,
Knowing the familiar will not be the same.
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