Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If I showed you what you don't know,
Would I suffer...
If I listened to your life of misfortune?
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Overcoming self defeat,
Is delivered as a gift to them.
The joy in their eyes is magnified.
And an escape from traps has been witnessed.
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I don't feel that offended to defend my point of view.
Why would I feel a need to do it?
I can look back at my footsteps,
And realize I have lived my life with and without critique.
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If agony is what you seek,
I am sure there are a few who would share their burdens.
With a dumping of their sorrows right in your lap.
To be left crazed because of a quality of life,
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The younger ones,
Do not wish any part of it.
The fragmentation solicited...
Or the family divisiveness.
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They have lost all support.
And still wish to lip negativity.
Their ignorance is used for sport,
For those who see them as blinded bats...
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You deserve, earn and get...
The dividends returned,
From your wise investment.
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I am not that one to forget.
To be pushed aside,
For something better to wish...
To inspect what comes next!
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Strip teaser...
Each time you remove an unneeded vowel,
And you appear,
Exposing consonants clear...
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No one is disconnected,
From the effects of having less.
Those protesting the state of the economy,
Are the ones in selfish isolation.
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