Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If you don't let me have my way,
I will just burn down the house.

'Go ahead.'
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Those with little to give may have nothing else,
From themselves to offer to others to impress...
But the little they have to leave them with less.
If in the doing it removes someone,
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When dumb ideas become dumb to the ones,
Who discover ideals held stubbornly...
Will not return a yesterday gone,
Yet prolonging the persistence of it...
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Forgotten are the rules and benefits of love.
Where the keepers?
The true believers?
And...
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Anyone who will do anything,
With intent to take advantage of another...
Will do this time and again.
And...
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Is it too late, under-rated yet magnified,
To appreciate reality and rid alibis.
Is it too late to terminate a manifesting made,
In minds re-routed from a consciousness...
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Refuse the empathy and keep...
Those dreams you wish kept alive.
Keep...
Them in your mind to survive.
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Keep your opinions valued.
Aren't they 'yours' to make?
Aren't they yours to express?
No matter what approach you use,
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If I had not been there for you,
With interest...
To take you through steps,
A, B and C...
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The power of The Almighty,
Is often challenged to be questioned...
By those perceiving through flattered prayers,
Anything is theirs to exist with manipulation.
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