Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

When I leave you...
Not a step will I take to make going backward,
With a feeling of defeat.
To look down on the streets.
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What's the matter, son?
Someone's called you names again at school?

'It's my Biology teacher.
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There is nothing like witnessing to experience,
A people living in an environment who have been convinced...
Ignorance and subservience is theirs to defend.
With an advocating of it that will not see an end.
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Should it make a difference,
To the one accustomed to looking up...
As to who holds their head down?
To stop with a noticing of it...
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Who's best to deliver and with an expected...
Consistency.

'Who's better than the one who has already done it? '

Who's best to deliver the better effect,
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Whatever that you do,
Do it to yourself and no one else.
If you are ever feeling despondant...
And there is no one to correspond this with,
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Many lack that genuine factor.
And the ones who overcompensate,
With a masquerading...
Seem suspiciously to be protecting,
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I can move from a mood that I've been brooding.
But I don't know why,
I can't give it up!
No...
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This is what I am saying...
From my lips to your ears.
I apologize for making statements,
Attributed to me while in the company...
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Mommy?
Mommy...
I want some water.

'Not until I hear that magic word.'
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