Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Put down your weapons!
What do you defend?
Your right to bury natives,
Upon their own land?
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Jaded...
By fading consequences
Held onto like treasured jewels.
But I do not sparkle within,
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A fallen leaf can not be revived,
Or returned to thrive on a disgarding tree.
A force implemented to do a will rejected...
Finds no success accepted.
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Civil unrest
Civil war
Civil chaos
Or...
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I alone allowed...
My failures to speak for me out loud.
And would ask and get advice,
Whenever I felt enticed by gloom!
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I lay awake this night possessed,
With a wish to have all detest turmoil!
From a heart that beats...
Connected to a 'divine' will
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We dance under a 'light' fantastic.
It beams with a glow that shines!
Our hearts are uplifted...
Above struggles that have shifted,
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Why would a people willfully give away
Bits and pieces of a heritage so rich and timeless...
Or become isolated and indifferent
As to not prepare for their own survival?
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There is no shame to claim,
On hunched backs left burdened
And seen picking over tossed garbage to dine...
As snobs of all flavors drive by
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I can not say,
My fantasies are yours.
Or portray in roleplay,
Fits of passion...
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