Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Never will you understand it.
Why things in my heart wont leave.
You will never understand it.
Never will you ever understand it.
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There is a thin and fine line,
Between this and that...
Which is not finitely defined.
And easily snapped!
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It is easier to take a taste that is sweetened.

Once seduced by trivia it becomes a wasted effort,
To reduce it to just a meaningless hype.
After it has blown to grow in significance,
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Obedient to subservience,
Was not intended for all to experience...
To enslave with materialistic wishes dreamed.
A subservience inflicted had been intended to restrict,
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If my purpose had been to deliver a message,
With an ego left remembered as expressed...
I would have long confessed my regret to prove,
It was never about a message.
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One's prolonged obsession,
With soliciting empathy...
Eventually gains them a sympathy,
For possessing a mentality...
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Remember in times of innocence,
How easy it was to accuse others...
Of being mean and indifferent.
And those who did this,
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Which view,
In your opinion...
Has more of an advantage,
From a horse drawn cart?
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The Cherry Blossoms bloom from buds.
To signal the beginning of a new Spring season.
Pre-ordained to sustain a cycle that remains.
And contains within such a mysterious wonder.
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If a peeling away of every layer of their pretentions,
Is their intention...
More than an economic crisis now experienced,
Will be revealed.
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