Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

What you allow people you claim you love,
To tolerate from you...
Should find somewhere in your mind to disgust.
But like most things you do,
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Some are selected to see and digest.
While others believe,
They are here to correct what's on the menu.
To decide what they will be served next.
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May those who throw stones,
Come to know...
What the baring of one's own burdens mean.
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A devotion that remains,
Hopefully gains in respect.
It doesn't mean that getting upset,
Changes one's feelings into regret.
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It gets a little bit harder,
To expand upon one's tolerance...
As the hair begins to gray.
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Status quoters on the ropes with hopes...
They could pull times long passed,
Back to have them in their grasp.
Since realities created,
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Representing heartily,
Are those of the crumpets and tea party.
Those of greed and suppressors of rights...
And consumed with self righteousness,
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What are you doing?
And why are you doing this?
What is the reason behind it?
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After surveys taken...
And scavenger hunts conducted,
To asset the length of one's time...
Eventually it will be determined,
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Quantity versus quality is easily achieved,
For those seeking to rush a production of insignificance.
To make claims of something gained.
But clearly a waste of initiative...
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