Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

There are so many things I have learned,
About survival and life and healing from pain.
I've learned that those who ignore,
Others doing their best to painfully survive...
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The teaching of one accustomed,
To hiding in the shadows
That a reaching for stars,
Will lift a broken heart
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Those browbeaters are out in droves.
With their voices raised high
Proposing to keep,
Fantasies kept about their lives
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Things happen for their reasons.
And there is no need to make excuses,
For the obviousness...
Of those mistakes made.
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Only that which has become familiar,
Can claim to come to produce a lust.
Which keeps a taste to satisfy if needed.
In a time that arrives to invite a rise,
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There are many people,
Some troubled on the streets
And looking grieved,
With no hope.
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If it's meant,
A loneliness experienced
Will come to an end.
And not in a forever,
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In the freeing felt done from breezes,
I walk with a feeling to please an appetite
To enjoy the air I breathe.
And aiding with deep breaths I take,
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It is too late,
To re-program a people taught...
They are entitled,
To disrespect without giving it a thought.
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Getting up and leaving,
Just before the dawn.
And after making love,
With a doing made that's gone.
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