Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I wanted to be.
Whatever you wished,
From me to see.
And in time I tried.
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No one should be made to feel,
Their life to live...
Is an obligation,
To appease someone's insecurities.
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It takes a lot of patience,
To adapt and adopt a new process.
Few are born to know what to do,
Before graduating.
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That cuckoo that you got.
Got to get up and go.
Take that cuckoo that you've got,
Away from me and out the door.
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The less sense sense to have is,
More seem to become offended.
With their senselessness to defend.
How common having none of it has become.
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Often there is a call for change.
As if a revolving annual awareness comes.
By the ones protesting against,
The ineffectiveness...
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Illicit solicitations.
Visits to illuminate,
One with unrelenting narcissistic visions.
Obsessed with self serving gratification.
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Fixed eyes.
Tunnel visioned.
Blindsided.
To what is left to be right.
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Broad are their smiles.
Predicted are their quips to mimic.
Picked to puppet dummies strung.
From strings that are pulled.
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Once free and easily accessible.
An honesty.
That has become a rarity to behold.
Too quick today it is to malign.
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