Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

How can someone undo a bitterness done.
And stung to wound,
Over something assumed.
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The accusers do what they have always done best!
Find someone to blame for their own mess.
Get others to agree to their false charges.
People find in time that they have been duped.
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You took this too far.
Too easy you thought it would be.
And giving your victory speech prematurely.
Only to find me,
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Get out of my face!
You have convinced my own flesh and blood,
To erase a closeness.
To become replaced...
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You wish to strum my strings,
To pluck my heart of its emotions.
As if to bring...
Upon my ears sentiment.
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You wish to simmer in a love you missed.
And believing it can be delivered,
Without a chemistry
That attracts!
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Please do not dismiss me.
Or the approach,
I have chosen to get closer.
I am not professional at this.
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Those ungrateful,
And living to inflict sins upon one another...
Are soon to discover,
Much more than just discomfort.
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In 1952...
I took my first steps on a stage.
The Bushnell Memorial Auditorium...
As it was called in those days.
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Monkeys don't do hula hoops.
Unless they've been smoking weed,
Grown on the hills of the Himalayas.
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