Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

The only way you can walk in my shoes,
Is when I am finished wearing them.
And to you they are donated.
To then retrace the steps where I have been.
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You come to me with expectations,
My path you will clear...
From your prior attacks,
That left total devastation.
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Pawns once quickly victimized,
Now yawn.
As complaints of those,
Preferring to sit on cushioned seats...
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No one should kick a dog,
Once it has been found...
Laying on the ground.
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The only people today left in the dark,
And feeling stupid they have lived...
In a divided separateness, isolated and apart,
Are those with old and aging beliefs...
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What is it that goes on in the minds of those,
Who choose an agenda...
To defeat the ones they have historically opposed?
By the telling of lies and demeaning them,
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How many times has my reluctance to say no,
Left me feeling as if I have betrayed myself?
And worried if I did say 'no'...
I would offend some unseen deity,
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What can be said,
About a force of negativity used...
That has proven itself,
To be a foolish tool observed by all...
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Thieves greedy and corrupted,
May not get the message...
Until they are crushed and busted.
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Exceptions...
Are dispensed all the time.
By those in positions,
Given authority to be selective...
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