Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

When my life one day has gone
And the breath I breathe
From me moves on...
I wonder if you'll want me near?
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Unprepared and unsuspected changes
In evolution comes.
Mother Nature is providing a solution...
To bridge and together snap,
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I have accepted your comments made to me,
That I live in my own world.
And I've learned not to argue but agree.
However...
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Soon!
So soon to come to stun,
Even those who had believed...
Themselves awakened and relieved,
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Age?
For some aging is feared!
However,
It is ignorance
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Mellowed in a way no one would guess...
That stress, conflicts and disappointments met.
And beating unflavorable odds,
To squash surmounting tests.
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Another new year approaches.
With it understood,
The same trite expressions...
Will remain the same.
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...I want to tell him I'm feeling like that!
'Cause he's my brother.
I want to tell him I'm feeling like that,
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The thing I like best,
About having the freedom to express...
As a poet,
Is this:
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I have been black.
To long to know,
Racism is a fact.
And living to experience that,
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