Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

They know what is going to happen.
And that is why it fascinates.
They know that danger lurks around.
And they are aware,
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Just do your deeds and be done with it.
Why struggle against ignorance...
When the force of it,
Can create powerful setbacks.
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Like that...
You gave it to me!
And now you want it,
Back?
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It embraces and comforts!

'What does? '
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And you...
Have spent so many days,
From Sun.
All your nights have turned into one.
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I wish my heart to you was known.
With emotions deep.
I do keep within reach.
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Sweet meat cleaver...
May your sharpened blade,
Be swung to come down swiftly...
To silent false lips attached to crooked necks.
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Today's youth are heard to say,
'People don't get me.'
With a doing little wanting pay.
'People don't get me.'
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There are those with insecurities,
Who believe them to be less noticeable...
If they are quick to point out the flaws,
And blemishes of others in public.
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An acceptance of what is,
To move on from it...
Increases the prospects of progress.
Although one will eventually admit,
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