Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Why is your fist all up in my face?

'I just wanted you to see my knuckles,
In the event you should say something...
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I've got to move...
From memories,
Haunting...
Every need in me!
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Nothing intentionally broken into pieces,
Over an extended period of time...
Can be painfully put back together again.
As if the act and the lack of integrity,
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I've been loving you!
Taking trips from North and South,
To come to figure this one all out!
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Two women in my life,
Left impressions deep on me.
These two women did for others,
Unselfishly...
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I admire your desire to want to play catch up!
It is inspiring to watch.
But the time you have clocked,
Has long been stopped.
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Things will be said about the one once ignored.
The one once a joke,
And providing laughing fodder...
To those who fidget.
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It's not a sin for those,
Who distance themselves...
As far as they can,
From the ticking of a clock.
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Feeling uncomfortable,
Inside your own home?
And although people reside within it,
Do you still feel all alone?
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Those putting a foot forward,
To breakaway from portrayals...
Others may lay to say some betray.
May just not be attempts to impress.
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