Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Better it is to have than not,
When it is tested.
And the evidence of it one witnesses.
Kept faith is something else.
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When tragedies become routine,
To eventually decrease...
Surprise and shock to stop tear drops,
These tragedies are removed...
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You can't love,
Anyone who don't know love.
You can't love,
Images of it.
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Pre-conditioned,
With this mental ambition.
And told to magnify,
To maximize.
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A darkness that's been turned on,
Can be switch off and to do it quick.
This darkness that's been turned on,
Can be turned off with a doing it.
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Is it...
Those pessimistic visits,
Permitted to persist,
Unresisted...
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Should we...
Become un-numbed,
From our active and kept delusions?
To find a need for more reason,
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You taught this...
Use of division to win all decisions.
You.
You taught this...
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If it was not,
From a love you gave to me...
I would still be drifting.
Seeking what it was I sought.
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As difficult as it is,
For some decisions to be made...
The doing of it is much easier,
Than the creating to make up new excuses.
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