Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Take what it is you can do,
And succeed with it.
No one has to know but you,
How deep the interest.
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Find your own voice.
And in time you will recognize it,
To be just yours when that happens.
With a dismissing of those other voices,
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Those troubles I have not.
To keep a frown upon my mouth.
And with an ease to have them seen,
As if I let them get to me.
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Wouldn't it be great,
If those who participated...
In the creating of chaos,
And confusion they have initiated...
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There are those who have motives,
To create descension.
And find a way by slithering in,
To infect the ones unconscious...
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No obligations have I made,
To allow my emotions dragged...
Into pits of despair.
With wishes to find a way,
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Please,
Why can't you give me time...
With allowing my mind,
To find a bit of comfort.
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Those who speak of a future,
But have divested all investments...
In effective selfishness.
To quickly feast and digest,
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Ask anyone who is hungry.
And thirsting from it until it hurts.
Whether or not they have concerns,
If the food delivered to provide them nourishment...
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If you want to get to drive,
You have to learn to be swift.
With those daydreams gone.
Without a mind that drifts,
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