Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I did not wake up one day
And decided I would be 60 years old.
Each one of those years I earned,
With an observation learned.
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If an attractiveness,
To leap over a cliff is wished.
There is nothing that is going to stop...
The splattering that occurs,
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The tricks of politics,
Is to pretend religion has nothing to do with it.
Pretend there is a deep caring!
And a race without rascism 'is' involved.
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If more and more people claim,
They have found God...
While they were locked up in prison?
Then why are they not finding 'Him'
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What do I have to prove?
To you?
Nothing.
To myself?
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I do the best I can...
To be a better man than I am!
I can understand,
Why you don't acknowledge me.
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Strengthen my faith,
Father.
Wherever You are.
Wherever I am.
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Breaking through the thickness,
That kept me attached to a weakness...
In my mind overtime I kept.
I have wept my last tears.
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Your opinions and my activities,
Are on separate paths.
That is why I'm not seen,
In your presence too often.
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