Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

No one can keep pretending,
What they could have been...
Or should have been with a wanting to be,
If they kept it make believed...
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It may take for some many years,
To realize they have been used as suckers.
And the ones who did the deceiving,
With a suckering done to do them in.
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Achieving notoriety can be claimed,
To bring on changes.
Even having a name someone else has,
That may be the same...
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Professing to have integrity today,
Is as old as the discovering of a fossil.
People are into themselves and things.
And if a dollar bill is connected to it,
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Coming too cruel,
Is the presence of evil.
And it has fooled,
The people who sit.
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We all give to certain things,
A preference that is connected...
To define with different meanings.
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Vivid is the presence of truth.
Stinging to the ears.
And clearing cloudy eyes.
Vivid is the presence of truth.
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Too many events consenting to ignorance,
Could come to a peaceful end if not provoked.
There are just too many folks,
Who have found a kept dependency...
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Promises of love...
Who's gonna give it and who gets it.
Those promises of love...
Who's left to wait for the benefit.
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Acting...
That's all it is.
Not a fact of life,
One actually lives.
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