Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

The most difficult challenge faced,
By anyone living today...
Is the choosing to be oneself.
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It is as easy today to ruin someone's reputation,
As it is to deceive anyone who believes...
Those who preach with a self righteousness,
Are not sneaking around cheating on their mates.
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I can not stay around,
Those good mood killers.
With their targets set,
Aimed to induce a producing of negativity.
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Why are you so insensitive?

'Insensitive?

I didn't sell to you what you bought.
Nor was I there to promise you fulfillment.
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Unflattering and degrading comments to me made! ?

If I had not been raised prepared to receive them,
Or listen with intent to criticisms sent my way...
My strut would not have had such a focus with purpose.
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The time to evaluate and assess one's life,
Should be done with a clear consciousness.
With a self examination taken day and night.
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Why have all the flagpoles,
Beed reduced to stand...
At half of their normal height?
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If this was 1953,
And I was still beset with fantasies...
I 'might' consider your challenge to compete with me,
Seriously.
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After being exposed to diversity,
And the taste of its various flavors.
One who has lived to experience this,
Often chooses a life to live in quietness.
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There is only one explanation,
That reveals the setting stages of today's insanity.

Vanity, greed and the feeding fed of feelings,
To achieve superiority.
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