Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

What is it that you wish.
As a year to soon leave,
Takes its final bow to forget.
Will you wish for the new year,
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Some live...
Without kept faith or hope.
Moping with their negative feelings.
And expressing to show this,
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Under the surface.
More is there unrevealed.
Kept under surface.
There to remain concealed.
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Be about,
Completing a task.
And...
Be About,
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Is it your purpose to remain indifferent.
Thinking it an incentive and reason,
To participate with others...
In decisive divisions supporting conflicts.
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No longer discussed,
In debates to await...
One decision to make,
That will place the fates...
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It really does not matter,
Who chooses tricks to pick.
With a smooth strategy,
Undetected that is slick.
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When will it all cease.
The dieting on sugar coated,
Sweetened speeches.
Delivered from podiums and pulpits.
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The crisis has been identified.
And a wall is reported,
To be immediately needed.
At a cost to deepen a deficit so high,
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Racism, bigotry, indifferences, division.
Disparities, inequalities.
And entitlements supporting ignorance to believe.
Now the Wall is being advocated.
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