Lawrence S. Pertillar Expectations Poems

Once words leave from my mouth to be said,
They are not rehearsed to fit snuggly...
To take into consideration your preferred wishes.
In a way that is expressed to address,
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Let's make this clear,
Between us.
What you wish to do,
At the expense of my time...
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It never ceases to amaze me,
How those doers of misdeeds...
Can excuse themselves from them,
So easily.
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I've learned a few things...
With time and age.
And what experience brings.
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Don't address it.
That's the easiest way,
Something that is needed to be said...
Never gets delivered.
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We do what we do,
Until we don't.
It 'will' be declared finished.
Eventually in time.
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Nothing that I have given to give,
Do I regard in the giving...
As something I still own.
If I have it to give,
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As expectations come to go,
Few can bet on what had been selected...
To satisfy what time has realized.
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I have yet to find it,
Constructive, productive 'or' beneficial...
To offer an opinion, suggestion,
Or solicited advice to anyone who has asked...
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If it is believed,
The life you live is in need...
Of more love.
More joy and happiness to get.
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If what is believed is so easy.
As it is perceived and rumored to be.
Why do so many express less interest?
To denounce those doing it,
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A kept protected ignorance,
Has proven to be more infectious...
Than the spreading of a virus.
In the midst scientists,
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There are many living to choose,
Of doing good deeds.
For others without this to ask.
Or expecting to receive,
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We all are on the field of battle.
Good versus evil.
Hoping the reversing of expectations,
Beings to eliminate,
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What do you think,
About a president so corrupted...
His activities to announce,
Has caused him reason to be impeached.
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There are those who have a need,
To brag and boast about their abilities.
Mostly embellished to exaggerate.
And accomplished usually unwitnessed.
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I am not going to be the one,
To declare or call anyone stupid.
Afterall...
I have no proof,
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Exceptions and expectations awaited,
Can deflate those believing...
They deserve entitlements served automatically.
Because of who they are, where they live...
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Expectations kept low and enforced to be accepted,
Have those attempting to climb out of holes...
They dug deep to keep mediocrity appealing.
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Don't get me mixed up with an image fixed.
Or innuendos heard through quick and juicy gossip.
I may feel to feed you with perceptions to believe are real.
But as those perceptions go to fade away,
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Your stubbornness led you,
To be stuck in quicksand more than once.
With a continued disregard of advice.
And, a disrespect shown to me and others.
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Fame to wish with fortune to get,
Will never replace the freedom...
Of wanting to lower,
Those high expectations.
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Secret wishes.
Goals of feasting,
Greed exclusively.
Toasting guests,
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"Those expectations set in stone.
Leave them!
Leave them alone."
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People have their pets.
With expectations from them to demand.
Parents raise their children.
With expectations to demand.
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Regardless of what affect they leave,
On anyone who has expectations.
Many are left to believe,
Their needs and wishes must first be fulfilled...
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I didn't 'have' to do it!
I just did.

Nothing was promised.
Or gift was I to get.
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Initiators, instigators, implementators...
Whatever you want to call people,
Who create their own dilemmas...
With an inviting of rage,
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Few doubters are left sitting on any fence,
Unconvinced...
Cemented ideals can and will be bulldozed.
And whatever has not been put into practice,
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Seeking to be challenged amongst those satisfied,
To have reached the heights of mediocrity...
And lowered expectations,
Is not a healthy mental environment to express...
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Those with high expectations,
Would not be noticed...
If the ones with low self esteem,
Chose with a choosing done...
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Exploration of expectations,
Without one explanation done.
Can be difficult to comprehend,
For those wishing a hand to hold...
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Few and often less,
Will await with kept patience.
If at all to have this left.
Would be found sitting,
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