Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Cooped up in a loop,
Can be removed to fool a loser.
And change,
The one who claims to feel pain.
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Whatever you thought existed.
With a persistence wished...
Isn't or will be as it was.
Resist those feelings of emptiness.
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Assumptions you have held and chosen...
Know they must go.
Those assumptions you have held and chosen,
Know they must go.
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It's not about the rhyme,
And reason.
Not about it no.
Not about the minds flipping out.
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It is not pretty,
When one shows an ugliness.
There is nothing appetizing that greets the eye,
When foam from both sides of the mouth...
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After pleading with you,
To come back to me on my knees...
You want for me to react as if,
Nothing surrounds you but rhapsody?
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I did not understand it then,
But I was in good hands...
When I was raised to be independent.
And learning at an early age,
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In between another heartache faked.
It can be seen and felt although not faced.
But too proud to admit of unrequited love.
Nothing reciprocated from it can be claim...
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If I had not moved to knock,
On the door of opportunity...
We would not have come to recognize,
Similarities that have become familiarized.
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Stop that gentle rocking of my cradle.
Stop that gentle rocking of my cradle.
Stop that gentle rocking of my cradle.
Stop that gentle rocking,
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