Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Why am I seeking to be controversial?
I am not specifically seeking that at all.

However...
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Even when warned...
People will choose to walk,
Down the wrong streets.
And do the complete opposite,
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No one has to guess,
As to who is selfish.
It is in their conversations...
That show an absence of patience,
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'Everything' about me you see...
My Father God,
Has taught to me.
I've heard those old stories told,
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Why bother to get involved with folks,
Who have zero integrity?

And why do folks become disappointed,
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Few come to know truth.
The power and the use of it.
With a significance that overrides...
Liars and their alibis.
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Many people have done one thing,
Most of their lives.
Get up-go to work-and go home!
Get up-go to work-and go home!
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I was a young patriotic Black man back then.
Wanting to protect 'my' country.
My neighbors.
My family and friends.
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They could have had their culture and identity in place.
But many of them because of jealousy,
Took their time to slander and erase...
Any deed that was done by anyone who came to uplift them!
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If this was easy...
Why isn't more of it being produced,
At this caliber.
If this was easy.
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