Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Who is to say,
How someone else should be?
Or that they are not being themselves?
Especially when those claiming to be down to Earth,
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Forgiveness to give,
Should not be a thought...
To premeditate a decision envisioned.
And then with faith,
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Such doings can be tempting,
For one torn between participating...
In a demon's misdeeds.
To feel a seeking to get revenge,
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Drown me in your light,
And let it shine on me.
Stormy are the clouds.
So treacherous the seas.
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Trade off!
Will the value satisfy the act,
Be equally pleasing?
Is that pleasure increased,
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Fill this house with abundance.
None like it has ever known.
Fill this house with peace and joy.
And let those within it,
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Bittersweet is the life lived,
By that one depicted to be...
The odd one out.
The one picked as a child,
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There are too many bold,
Sad but the truth is on.
And too may all-knowing for their teachers.
Sad but the truth is on.
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Is it a misconception,
That writers read...
Other writers' works?
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Discussed to magnify,
But no one but them knows.
No one but them knows.
No one but them knows.
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