Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Did you not choose selectively...
Your champions,
At the onset of the race?
And did you not confirm this again and again,
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The narrative and the pain associated,
Has not been experienced...
By those who can not relate.
And the narrative in debates wont change it.
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Is there a cultural and racial divide,
That has been as wide,
As any gap witnessed in canyons...
With a depth that is noticed,
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To lay blame on another,
Is part of the culture.
Very few will admit that sat,
They resolved their own problems...
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Pray to ask for clarity to come.
Be thankful in your doing of this,
Since nothing that we say or do...
Goes unheard to be dismissed.
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'What's the matter?
What 'is' on your mind? '

I am happy.
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'No matter what the others do,
Be and think positive...
If only for you.'
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I'd rather be loved,
Than to be painted...
As somebody that I aint,
To then be tainted.
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Remember the 'old' days,
When attempts were not made...
To manipulate legitimacy.
And people did deeds with merit,
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Women raising their boys,
And alone.
Do it with the expectation,
A teaching them to be fathers...
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