Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I'm not always going to say those things you like.
In fact,
If I do say them...
You can take from me a hike.
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No season seems more anticipated,
Than Spring.
No other time does life seem more appreciated,
Than Spring.
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Every morning that I am blessed to have awakened,
I am in the classroom and prepared to be tested.
And if I didn't regard my life that way,
I'd be struggling with the feeling of failure.
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I am a veteran.
Once a young patriot who had volunteered,
To join the military.
And it was clear a sacrificing of my life,
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I can not trust that love,
You claim you have for me.
There is something incomplete about it.
Something that leaves me,
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Decided by decisions made,
To do what one pleases...
Regardless of what others say.
And having one's way...
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Assimilation,
Can devastate to make hate.
Assimilation,
Has no one listening in debate...
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You want to know what it's like,
To grow up in the projects?
Being different and taking risks?
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People who live each new day,
To relive a previous day...
And say,
They wish they knew what was going on.
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Once words leave from my mouth to be said,
They are not rehearsed to fit snuggly...
To take into consideration your preferred wishes.
In a way that is expressed to address,
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