Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

You may want to see me,
Down and out.
Beneath and under shadows cast.
And you may spend a lifetime,
...

Obtain that needed peace,
In the quietness that silence brings.

Know that moments in silence kept,
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If my point of view offends you...
Where on Earth do you think,
In my head it was stirred and nourished from?
Neptune?
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A tolerance that comes to sit with patience,
For those awakening to realize...
Their lives lived had been mostly disguised,
By a fantasized reality...
...

You drive me crazy.
And I must,
Like...
The craze.
...

You keep that conga beat strickly in the rhythm.
You keep that conga beat heat, rhythmically.
And keep that beat just heated as it flows around the room.
And keep that beat just heated.
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I see them in the heavens above your head.
I hear them from your eyes with the words unsaid.
Ahhhhhhh...
Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh, ahhh, ahhhhhhh.
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That 'senior citizen' thing,
Isn't easy for many to face and address.
And...
I am not comfortable with it yet.
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Isn't it sweet...
When beliefs kept,
Become validated.
And a berating done becomes obsolete,
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You should want to be,
At your best when tested.

Those who do,
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