Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Have you been forgiven?
Have you looked inside,
To release those burdens of guilt?
Overcomed with anxiety...
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Some folks may change personas,
But they wear the same pajamas.
And when they expose,
The same butt and nose...
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I'm so glad to see us back together.
Even though we argue and fight!
Let's keep 'us' back together...
So I can sleep peacefully at night!
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Some may say I don't 'NEED'
But that I 'WANT'!
But I know what I need...
And it's you that I want.
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Poppa didn't come to stay,
Standing on the sidelines
To watch others play!
Poppa came to rock!
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The only game there is
In a place small enough to play it...
Is the one so completely obvious
Those involved are given clues,
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To eliminate a sentence,
To make a paragraph more accepting...
Or censor a comment to make an issue less
Affecting...
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You'll never know,
How I feel...
Or lonely nights with tears
That fall.
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Poetry...
A craft,
Much like that
Of a mason laying bricks.
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I'm going to sweep you up in my arms,
With a thrust unknown to you.
Overpowering all of your objections,
With a gushing love I have that's true!
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