Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

Did you not choose selectively...
Your champions,
At the onset of the race?
And did you not confirm this again and again,
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Pray to ask for clarity to come.
Be thankful in your doing of this,
Since nothing that we say or do...
Goes unheard to be dismissed.
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'What's the matter?
What 'is' on your mind? '

I am happy.
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Remember the 'old' days,
When attempts were not made...
To manipulate legitimacy.
And people did deeds with merit,
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'No matter what the others do,
Be and think positive...
If only for you.'
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I'd rather be loved,
Than to be painted...
As somebody that I aint,
To then be tainted.
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Looking back at attempts made,
By those thought to have been 'then' mavericks...
Yet unafraid of labels placed,
Upon their willingness to face consequences.
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You would get rid of it quicker,
Than in your mind kept to keep.
Whether it's...
Religiously held politics.
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Why did this happen?
And could have any of this...
Been avoided to prevent?
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Why is it,
That those who have been shunned and ostracized...
And have begun to live productive and happy lives,
Become the ones despised...
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