Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

We wish to get,
The best we can.
To receive and please us.
Yet that to give,
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If truth has never been known.
Or shown the difference,
Between lies produced to then deny.
And the negative effects,
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No one gives their pain a name.
Or on a scale from one to ten,
Describe that feeling inside of them.
Done to have another,
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Promising to provide,
Many things at once.
Omnibus wishes.
Missing aspirational tones.
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Voting just to do it,
May inspire people to believe...
This done to alone,
Affects the changes...
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More to receive and get.
With less complaining about,
What is given not to earn.
Yet entitled to expect,
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Reality to witness it.
Affecting effectively,
With it known to feel.
And embraced to see.
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Further to be tarnished.
Is the image given to prestige.
And the pretentiousness,
Of kept etiquette.
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Close shut all doors.
On those befores.
This? Is after.
After the nonsense has passed.
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There are times,
When one's best to give.
Shown to another done to do.
Is not enough to express appreciation.
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