Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

We live with wishes to know what love is.
To not know when it comes.
With it had to have it until it goes.
Wanting it to feel more than anyone can show.
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Lies have caught thieves,
Up to their elbows in committing misdeeds.
And they plead for leniency.
Forgiveness and empathy.
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Once a great landscape.
Today scathed by scorching corruption.
Has produced more rotten lemons.
Not even one can be found,
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Keep it real.
Be bold.
Reveal the ingredients,
Applied to the uniqueness of your flavor.
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Defending decadence.
And one's right to devalue,
The quality of life of others.
Many may wish to remind the multitudes,
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A race to the bottom of the pits.
Advocated by bigotry and racism.
Taught amongst those insecure and isolated.
Spreading division, conflicts...
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Observing to view.
Without a question needed to ask.
What experiences one has lived to have had.
Makes it difficult for one,
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Dumped into the oceans and seas,
As if waste from luxury cruise ships.
Has been a corruption permitted,
To choke life and the quality of it...
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Show me what is proper.
And I will give you proper.
Then tell me where I should go.
With my proper self others will know.
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Once shown to be made known,
How one travels to the extreme.
To disrespect and demean another that seems,
Left defenseless.
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