Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Calm down!
What is the matter with you?
You look exasperated.
Irritated AND annoyed.
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Treasure everything about love,
Knowing...
If it's yours you want it kept to grow.
And...
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Come to me clean.
Clean,
Of mind, body and soul.
Cleaned...
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It becomes extremely difficult,
To eliminate...
Both waste 'and' B.S. from one's life.
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How profound,
Statements made in the past...
Have come back to trespass,
To capture imaginations...
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No one can claim,
To have comfort zones owned.
Or a place to go totally unaffected,
By the goings on of heightening tensions...
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Feelings on my left and right,
Are mine...
To keep.
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Initially what begins is a mystery.
And in its presence one believes,
An intellectual acceptance to explain...
Is what is needed.
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Time changes that,
Which is believed set in stone.
It's less traumatic today to awaken with amnesia.
Than to witness the wonders of discovery,
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I can't have my feelings just be up for grabs.
To let somebody have!
Who would I be fooling?
Only myself.
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