Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I appreciate your efforts,
To clarify the exits.
With an enthused anticipation,
That I'd rehearse...
...

A travesty that shadows brilliance,
Contorts the showing of it...
In atmospheres where foolishness,
Seems worshipped and condoned.
...

For eight years...
An incompetent leadership,
Rallied behind the support...
Of despair and fear.
...

Lesson #1...
You can not convince those,
Who have made up their minds...
That an alternative approach,
...

How long...
Do you think we can carry on,
A relationship that has ended
Its mending.
...

Antagonizing violence,
To convince they can destroy.
Wishing to depict themselves as powerful...
To enforce a respect.
...

I am not a ssshh...taker.
Cake baker.
Or a candlestick maker.
Nor am I one to ooze charm...
...

I wish you knew,
That.
I can see,
That.
...

Where did you come from?
And how did you manage...
To lift your tender petals,
Up through the cracks...
...

I'm sworn...
To groove.
And to pat my feet.
To a beat repeating.
...