Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Never would I wish to compete,
Upon those fields...
Depleted of challenges.
I've witnessed my own foolishness.
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Journeys from the stoop,
I would participate with friends...
Sitting upon them as a child.
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Is it just me?
Am I the only one left believing,
No one can be taught integrity?
Or meet a thief to teach,
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That I do not find myself accepted,
By those who have acquired
A false sense of themselves...
Is fine!
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Oh no,
Don't want to be a bad boy.
Oh no,
You don't want to be the one destroyed.
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Anyone who lives a lie and does it well,
To embellish activities actually done...
Does it with a belief deceiving is accepted.
Afterall...
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People rather shop,
Than to stop to pay attention.
'Do they'?
And people rather wish,
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I am not the same,
To pretend changes I have made...
Have not been excruciating.
Or exhausting to attempt,
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I've got you.
You've got me.
And we've got...
Dreams.
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You may want to see me,
Down and out.
Beneath and under shadows cast.
And you may spend a lifetime,
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