Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Rush to the giving table.
And feast.
Know you are more than deserving,
To feast.
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Some may hear words spoken.
With a nodding of heads.
As if in complete agreement.
However...
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Fashionable.
An elitist trashing.
Thieves,
Bored with a greed feasting.
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Praising instability,
Today has risen to heights of adulation.
Imitated by the youth.
Nurtured to perform,
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Stop allowing yourself,
To cast a shadow of doubt and despair.
Raise your head.
Feel the Sun upon you shine.
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Honesty to know it felt.
And also heard by others,
Disapproving of it to speak openly.
May not bring anyone thunderous applause.
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There is one activity,
Many find difficult.
And extremely hard,
To commit themselves to do.
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A good to choose,
Over an evil easy to create.
Takes a strength one's faith,
To display.
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Begun to not undo.
That desire to have more than we need.
Believing to be entitled.
In a competition started to begin,
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Whether to admit it.
Or ignore its existence.
The fabric of this quilt,
Created to have been made.
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