Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

There is a needed reason to keep your attention involved.
There is a needed reason to keep your attention involved.
A needed reason to keep your attention involved.
There is a needed reason!
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That 'you'...
Are suddenly interested,
Of how I am affected...
By the state of the present economy,
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Have you ever been anywhere,
To strip yourself bare of anything to conceal.
To then be asked,
'What are you hiding?
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A horse familiar with pulling a cart,
Doesn't have to be taught...
What that experience is like.
Or is in need to have details of scenes,
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Maturing with an expanding insight,
Is a lonely path to travel.
Especially when so many,
Are doing their best to reverse the clock.
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I am a poet.
Not a politician.
Priest or preacher.
Nor am I a connoisseur of etiquette...
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This process.
As difficult as it is,
Gives an ease that seems to flow.
There is a representation that creates an image.
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Never have I stood in someone's face,
To place what I thought...
Would be a valued judgement.
Or criticized their chosen lifestyle,
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If it has been what it is,
And you've been made to believe...
It was not!
And you discover a truth from you,
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Any time spent evaluating is beneficial.
And taking life for granted,
Is ultimately what one discovers...
During this process.
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