Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I awakened recently,
With this thought as my reality.
What I've done with a doing to do,
To accomplish as my interpretation...
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As an aging man,
Wishing to have had...
A woman in my corner,
There to understand.
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Right now,
The storm is passing...
As it rolls over the skies above.
And right now...
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Trapped to rehearse and perfect practices,
To satisfy a doing with a purpose unclear.
Since the doing in an atmosphere,
Has made such practices...
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Unwinding from danger,
With time that I am finding.
Unwinding I am.
And finding I can be,
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Uprooted to be uplifted to reach.
And to climb from valleys low,
Is much easier to do...
Without burdens on one's back,
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If it had not been for my parents,
I doubt very seriously...
I would have sought reasons to rebel.
Especially when I threatened as a child,
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If one can not justify their actions taken,
But continues to defend them...
Loud and defiantly and in a pulic way,
To display a lack of knowledge...
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Authenticity is like a fine wine.
It's presence is not appreciated,
Until the taste is rated as Grade A...
By those who appreciate,
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If one continues to remove obstacles,
Off of one's path.
And a journey one has taken has had,
Nothing but obstructions along the way.
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