Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

'What did you notice?
What did you see? '

All of us stood and witnessed it,
Spiraling out of control.
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I'm on a path of least resistance.
And its existence.
On a path of least resistance.-
I'm on a path of least resistance,
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I'd like to keep,
You...
On my mind.
It's satisfying all the time.
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Father?
I know You have given me,
A freedom to choose.
A freedom to choose,
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If people were not intentionally programmed,
To be envious...
Manipulating them would not be so easily effective.
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Is a return to appreciate someone,
Just too late?
When one discovers,
A position taken of a situation faked...
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One's silence is saluted,
When removed from loops seduced.
One's silence is saluted...
When refusing automatic passes,
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Once a picking apart begins,
The entire fabric becomes affected.
And so effective is the unravelling,
Those who believe themselves not participants...
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If their parents had reasons,
Why they disliked themselves...
Like their parents before them did.
Maybe their children would be given opportunities,
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It hurts to live a truth,
When a doing it many have done to refuse...
To see it for what it is.
Or prefer to make lieing as a choice to choose.
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