Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Take care of all that which is loved!
And...
Don't let it,
Slip away...
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Peace keeps me desperate,
With a wish not to let it stray.
Too far away,
From an earned solitude.
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You have every right in the keeping of your beliefs.
And to quote from notes of those who lecture,
From pulpits to pedestals in speeches that preach.
However...
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Why is it,
That those depicted as being rude or insolent...
And prepared to quarrel,
Seem to be the ones having their toes stepped on...
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I may now and then,
Step away for a minute.
To replenish my energy.
And to keep it from being diminished.
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You may have the freedom to spy on me.
For as long and as often as you like.
And as long as you realize I exercise my freedom,
To know this is what you do...
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Some see rain as an opportunity to cry.
But without it,
People aren't nourished.
And when a drought happens things die.
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There's not too many reasons,
I would...
Set aside my pride.
And there's...
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Manufactured for them has been their own environments.
For those who deny and criticize a way of life...
Approved by the doing of it!
Permitting without resisting the existence of it.
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Just minutes away.
Whatever it is wished,
Might be sitting...
Just minutes away.
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