Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

It is what it is.
Not what one wishes it 'could' be.
Or should become,
After the experience of a composition exposed,
...

All things one will receive,
In this lifetime.
Will come.
To leave.
...

Irresponsibility makes it okay to trash the streets.
And leave them that way until someone or 'they'
Picks up after others...
With a broom to sweep.
...

On the right,
Are those who make excuses.
On the left,
Are those who abuse.
...

They believe to have things,
Leaves others impressed.
Perhaps in those days...
Long gone but still addressed.
...

Many make false claims,
To sensationalize their own lives.
They use others as decoys,
To hide and mask their own insecurities.
...

It use to bother me when I heard others say,
Who did or did not have talent.
And I believe one who breathes has skills,
Of some kind.
...

Once that letting go begins,
There seems to be such freedom to admit...
Every aspect of pain and sorrow inflicted,
And held within, lifts.
...

Some brick walls are easier to penetrate.
And that depends on when they were cemented.
The thickness.
And the chipping done,
...