Holding Onto Yesterday Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Barriers aren't meant to stop us!
Those that come stocked,
With mental blocks dropped...
To inconvenience.

Obstacles,
Struggles and delays may be gifts.
It's not for us to determine,
What part of this has God to do with!
Reasons unbeknown will be shown,
If we can get over 'ourselves'...
And those ego tantrums
Throwing our purposes off track!

Out of alignment
With minds seeking to defined themselves.


'Hey...
Garbage in, garbage out!
Leaving it to scatter about.'

If it was about the grace and poise
Of jumping over hurdles,
And being ambushed by grief...
That makes holding a deep breath routine!
It is not about those scenes that I see anymore.
None that makes my opened eyes,
Now see any clearer!

I wouldn't be winning races...
If I kept holding on to yesterday!
If 'faith' I kept wasn't going my way!
I wouldn't be winning races...

Or raging to chase my ambitions.
Peaches and cream? ?
I haven't seen a peach near anything
Resembling cream!
I wouldn't be winning any races...
Or able to make every night making love,
Seem like a one night stand!
Confidence was the key,
That was taken away from me!

I know you found yours...
Or I wouldn't be with you.
We wouldn't be together!

'Everynight? '

That's the way I feel about my life!
Where is your mind?


Inspired by and Dedicated to:
Paul Dailey-Artist
Hartford,
Connecticut

'Paul! You are a genius! May the Almighty
continue to bestow gifts and blessings upon you! '
L