Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Whose innocence is left unaffected to protect?
Whose tender ears and covered eyes,
Have not yet peeped to hear in whispers...
Someone deceiving another with lies?
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On and on...
I'll keep believing,
On and on...
My faith's my rock!
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The moment you began to assess,
Where I lived and how I dressed...
And my choice to choose,
The mode of public transportation...
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There are more who are mythed,
By a reality for them that doesn't exist...
Than there are those,
With minds of a higher consciousness...
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Class factors kept intact,
Satisfies a doing of benefactors.
Class factors kept intact,
Eliminates the need of explanations.
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Can you sit in quiet before the fire starts.
Will you sit in silence,
Before the flame.
Can you sit in quiet before the fire starts.
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Jumping onto a fast moving bandwagon,
With beliefs the doing of it...
Increases one's prestige as deceits are fed.
Only exposes those who ride as incapable,
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Children follow with a mocking,
Of that which to them has been fed and shown.
And those in positions who teach mediocrity,
As a known entity to have the children see...
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One who acknowledges to recognize,
A disorder they may have and characterized...
By a loss of contact with the environment.
That begins to deteriorate a desire,
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A rising of mental sickness witnessed,
And its affiliation with kept beliefs...
Can not be separated as if to determine,
Something unusual will be uncovered...
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