Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

If you have not reached within...
Your appreciation for a touch,
From someone who needs you
To reach out...
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Benefit of a doubt?
Do you realize how many benefits
Of doubt I've given out?
How many 'Oh well, that's okay! '
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They see a vulnerability
And believe to themselves
That is the sum of me.
I do not mine the exposure of my mind.
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Some had been on sleeves.
For years grieving
With emotions deep.
And taken for granted...
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If there was anything I wish,
That I could reveal to anyone...
It would be to say one day to everyone,
Everything I have ever done has been uncovered!
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You say you don't understand,
What it is I am trying to convey?
And you read again and again...
Still not comprehending?
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When it's spoken and should be understood,
For what it is...
It ain't!
When I'm expected to listen,
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They don't know what 'this' is!
'This'...here!
Because they have no idea who I am,
And 'how' I am connected to it!
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I wish I was
Caught up in the shallowness
Of my own thought process.
That would make it much easier
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This comes as no surprise,
Your goodbye hurts my eyes.
These tears I can not stop...
Each dropp blocks my farewell.
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