Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Stop.
Take a moment.
Look around.
Do you 'still' insist,
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More to life is realized,
By those living not to limit...
With gimmicks to confuse.
And behind fences to use to restrict,
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If a need wished and wanted,
Has come to be granted...
To the one that is fed,
Those standing by...
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When that time comes,
For anyone to be alone with it done...
To reflect.
With the putting of one's life,
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With maintained concerns to keep,
Pretentions kept for many as a relief...
Something undetected comes along,
That leaves a deluded society breathless.
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I sat to listen.
While jokes were made.
And I felt degraded to be laughed at.
To sit and feel both mental and physical pain.
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Who are they to leap,
With a receiving of recognition...
They did not earn to achieve?
And yet they sit in positions to get,
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Much is going on in everyone's WORLD.
Deaths of close friends.
Those near death.
Those financially upset.
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As pretentions go,
Why be amongst the few...
To object to them?
Participate or don't.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
We are so pleased to announce...
A successful defeating,
Of those we have picked to see fail.
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