Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Faith and devotion kept,
Is never a wasted investment,
Of time each day to deposit.
Only those who know the benefits,
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Those steps to take,
That seem most effective...
To achieve what is needed done.
Are often the ones,
...

Time done to listen,
Doesn't sit awaiting but moves ahead.

When people don't take time to listen.
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Trust to receive but deceived to manipulate it,
Will never again...
Be thought okay to leave that trust,
With anyone who proves they can not be honest.
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As if that difference needed made,
Does not include you.
To follow through to make it.
Or awaits for you to choose and decide,
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Two more vans,
Of collected evidence has arrived.
Where should we put it?
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Is it more important,
To know what had been done to do it.
To amaze and astonish.
Or how what was done with it to do,
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What's wrong?
The knowing of what was right,
Has gone.
From where it had for so long,
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Nothing has been more prolific,
Than the reinvention and abundance...
Of ignorance and stupidity.
And the growth and love of it,
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Sudden, brief and stunning.
Certain moments come.
Appearing from nowhere.
Leaving many emotionally unprepared.
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