Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I have been where you are.
And to repeatedly return...
To support your steps,
With motivated encouragement...
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A faithful presence kept within,
Isn't in need of outside intervention.
Or someone to assess the depth of it.
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If I had not been rebellious,
Seeking to have my own interpretation of life...
I would not have made so many mistakes.
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Never keep it unreal to feel.
If it isn't.
Or try to appeal,
With a concealing an indifference.
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Dancing out of rhyme and reason.
Lacking rhythm with a pace too aged,
For the times you are behind.
And yet you request your steps be followed.
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Good morning.
I bet you thought you'd catch me snoring?
I had to get up early with the sunrise today.
To show another side of me...
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I wish I could start from where we began,
To have you comprehend...
What makes me 'tick' within.
To have you instantly feel what is felt,
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If you can identify something you do
As natural as the air you breathe...
It 'is' you.
It needs not to be explain.
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People want more than they have,
Of what it is they're given.
And first to criticize the ones who serve.
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With no excuses.
Or made attempts of pretense,
To hide in my heart to expose and show.
What I feel is revealed.
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