Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

A promised date with death...
For those celebrated to have valor,
And honor.
With a courage to protect,
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People choose to accept,
The plated fakeness of 'bling'.
And what they have been led to believe.
That a symbolic success...
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For too long I have stayed comforted.
With just my own shadow,
Feeling a sense of safety!
And spared from charities of outreach campaigns.
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I learn,
From observation.
Accepting a yearning.
With a consciousness attached.
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It is a narrow mentality,
That makes some perceive...
What is done is okay.
With a thoughtlessness achieved.
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Principles dismissed have sickened.
Minds unwinding from fixed disappearing values,
Can be found displayed on disrespecting streets.
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No matter 'who' God sends to us,
We must trust and not evaluate.
That unnecessary process (evaluation)
Is a ploy to deceive truth.
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The quality of our souls touch,
To brush away the cluster of walls
That has kept us stalled,
Behind false defenses.
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Your words...
The voice
Of who you are,
Is heard.
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Bear not the burden of your tribulations.
Let just my eyes,
Behold and fix.
To show,
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