Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

However it happens.
And for whatever the reason it does.
That 'you' to have becomes more realized.
With identity and applied dignity,
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Only God can teach those evil,
Lessons they repeatedly refuse to learn.
And regardless who forgives,
On knees known to have been victimized.
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If only the having of hindsight,
Could prevent the giving consent...
To ignorance allowed.
There would a listening more.
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Refusing to move ahead,
Is a choice to make.
And okay for those to choose.
Yet no one has proven,
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Nothing prevents,
Each stage of aging.
Or a wish to get consent,
To stay at one phase.
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Even those who had been made to believe,
Others grew up as children...
To have no needs and given everything,
They wanted.
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God has a way to clear clouded visions.
And minds stuck and glued to stubbornness.
Leaving more willing to listen.
With undivided attention to give.
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That one wish,
Most can believe...
Will be theirs to receive.
As if to have it guaranteed.
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One's kept faith to keep and know.
Takes more than words,
Heard to have such faith believed.
With this to walk and talk one's faith.
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Bound by material lust.
Clutched.
With a love to touch it.
And sits,
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