Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Unusual.
Peculiar and odd.
Strange, weird and unpredictable.
And...
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Facts are facts.
Too raw to take back.
Although there are those,
Who would rather propose,
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What are you doing?
Are you moving?

'Just cleaning my home,
...

I am glad today,
I was never over-ruled by doubt.
And made mistakes I did to admit.
For myself to figure out and not to quit.
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I remember the elders.
And observing 'their' ways.
'Don't do as I do!
You do as I say.'
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Many times those with good intentions,
Are better off just to leave them 'intended'.
You know...
Keep the idea of it 'wanted'.
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The taste of a life one dreams to come,
Has to go through a series of experiences.
And that wish may encounter obstacles to delay.
Since a requirement to peel away many layers,
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I am passionate.
Compassionate.
And seldom neither.
But often both.
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I am aging and I know this,
With a doing to show.
My tolerance level,
Has lowered tremendously.
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Has an epidemic gone unadmitted,
To become inflicted to permit and not resisted?

Immensely influenced I had been for many years.
With a belief my love and appreciation for others,
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