Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

The picture,
On a canvas painted...
Depicts a specific image,
Much greater than that...
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It has been all about you.
You can not go around,
With a disputing of that fact.
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For clarity purposes.
You are in no position to place demands on me.
Let's make that acknowledgement number one!
I've been in relationships and split from them,
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So pitiful have become those choice allegiances.
The ones some chose to bond with years ago,
With a professed loyalty overestimated...
That anyone conscious would have let go.
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Finally I have done something,
You regard as repulsive.
How many years did that take?
I hope you are pleased with the discovery.
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When a game is fixed,
And there are suspicions of it...
Those minds behind such misdeeds,
Are as outdated as the act perform...
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People who have sought most of their lives,
To obtain popularity with a sudden found interest...
In the times from them that have long gone and moved on,
Are the ones who should feel they have been cheated.
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There is a point of decision one reaches in one's life,
When a stripping away of pretentions from them...
As well as those still participating in that false activity,
Are no longer needed to condon with patience.
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What do people come to say,
When they have discovered their way...
Blocked and stopped by the presence of truth.
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The air is there to breathe,
No matter who attempts to avoid its presence.
Like so many who try to deny what feeds them.
And will not admit they seek to get it on a daily basis.
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