Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Waking up and giving 'thanks',
Should dawn...
At the crack of the morning.
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Keep what you value treasured.
That which is kept,
And known to you unmeasured.
To protect with your best.
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Backbiters decided,
They would discredit the deeds done...
By the wrong people coming to their aid.
Those seething with envy and jealousy did this,
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People seldom select rebellion.
From a truth spoken and understood.
Yet those upset and labelled rebels,
Know too well...
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From the beginning of his leadership,
They began a campaign to see him defeated.
From the moment his brilliance began to shine,
They began an advocating of hatred in the minds.
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Boom, boom, boom.
Children listening to their videos.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
With the sound plugged in their ears.
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You didn't come to just visit!
Did you?
You came specifically to kill my joy.
I felt it when you began to assess,
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Seek many have done to do,
An easy life to live that's sought.
With beliefs to succeed,
Comes without disappointment.
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Naysayers have begun to lose,
Their influential ways of paving roads of negativity.
More people begin to see,
Evil inflicted intentionally on the decrease.
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What is it with those,
Who boo and hiss efforts of some people...
To purposely wish havoc bestowed upon them.
And as years pass evil deed doers later expect,
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