Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You don't have to be...
Impossible.
I understand,
The reason for your...
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It should be one's consideration,
Someone is there.
It should be one's consideration,
Someone there cares.
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Initiators, instigators, implementators...
Whatever you want to call people,
Who create their own dilemmas...
With an inviting of rage,
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I will not fantasize anyone's innocence,
To depict ideals given no chance to exist.
What is observed today is as is.
And those who popularized an escaping,
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None of this is complicated at all.
You chose to bring something to the table,
Told again and again...
Not to bring.
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Muscled hustlers.
Toned and recently released,
From their rehabilitated commitments.
And ready to teach and/or preach,
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An innocence meant to defend,
And always be protected to isolate...
From reality with no escape to face it,
Eventually creates less tolerance for an immaturity.
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On multiple levels,
A picking apart of falsehoods takes place.
And on multiple levels,
The disgrace of this can not be erased.
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The many who have been inflicted,
With wounds and scars...
To leave them sleepless fearing nightmares.
Must forgive to mend.
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I have come to cherish,
This gift I've been given...
With words to create.
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