Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If we are not here to give and receive...
Why are we blessed with arms to reach.
And hands to offer,
What we have to share?
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I've witnessed manipulators,
Come and go.
A few had used techniques...
As easily as massaging a couple of egos.
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Do as you must,
To accomplish that
Which fulfills your desires.
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We can not blame anyone for ripping someone off!
Have we not extended blessings...
To anyone acquiring opulence.
And living to feed gluttony,
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My mother would have my sister and I...
As kids,
To go look for a nice sized switch.
Then strip it before she whipped us with it!
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The ones that do not listen,
Seem the ones who can hurt the most.
The reckless ones!
Living without a care in the world.
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If mediocrity is selected as a favorite flavor,
Of the majority of people raised to praise ignorance.
Then mediocrity it will be,
To smother the influence of those most capable.
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I know why I am not included,
In your conversations.

Most of the time I am ignored.
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To sit on pedestals,
May be heights some wish to achieve.
But as for me...
Why should I place such limits on myself?
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Have you ever stopped to take stock,
By inventoring those who remain as adversaries?
Those who took their time to find 'something' wrong you did?
And over the years and in retrospect,
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