From Another Place Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

If anyone feels the need,
To explain their innocence.
With this attempt to convince,
They have been the victim.
Slandered and misunderstood.
Yet...
Endeavor with a campaigning effort,
To have many believe...
Conflicts to start them.
With ruined integrities left to leave.
Had been the decision made,
By those wounded.
Choosing to self inflict,
Their own pain.
And the one claiming to be victimized,
Wishes to have it realized...
The only thing they could do,
Was to defend their beliefs!

"The more you talk.
The less sense you make.
Whether aware of it or not,
You continue to admit your guilt."

-No.
I'm not.
Those claiming I did anything to them,
Chose to self inflict their own wounds.
I was only being pro-active.
In the protecting of my innocence.
Is this wrong? -

"Never.
Ever ever ever...
Have I heard a guilt,
Explained to convince...
As a defense to protect an innocence.
Pro-actively.
You are not only unique.
But your mind?
Is remarkably...
Stunning.
And from another place."

-That's what I have been saying.
I'm the victim.
I'm the one innocent! -