Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

I want to feel relevant.
With a significance that is competent,
Energized and prepared.
When I strut it is done with a pride I stride,
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Another day.
Another celebrated conflict is made.
Another confusion to exist but disbelieved.
Another tension to resist.
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I've spent a lifetime dancing.
Entangled in a waltz,
From directions certain to false starts.
Romancing dreams!
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Stay right by my side.
And I hope you never show...
Or tell me I must go,
To then just walk away.
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It is best to leave those cranky alone.
It pays to leave those cranky people alone.

Leave those cranky people,
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We were all given the same rules.
And the consequences for disobeying them,
Were tested.
By more than just a few.
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Are you that person,
To take what you hear...
To be fact and not fiction?
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Greed has chased their jobs,
And employers overseas.
Outsourcing was the word I heard...
When a few years ago,
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There are times without reason,
When the mind rewinds...
Finding thoughts of others to come unexpected.
And hoping that a call brings a gratitude to express.
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