Lawrence S. Pertillar Poems

She knew and understood,
The man I would today become.
And even though I rebelled,
With a doing done when I was young...
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All that I want,
Is within my reach.
All that there is to satisfy.
And...
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Greater Than the best I've left.
Yes.
That's how I want you pleased.
Impressed!
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Unnoticed years of erosion,
Under one's nose...
To think of it as a quick fix needed.
With a giving of five to ten minutes,
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Not a figment of one's imagination,
Is a life of another lived.
Nor can one explain a pain endured.
Felt as others take this and theirs,
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No one knows,
What you go through each day.
But there are some with 'something' to say...
About what it is,
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You can read it as it is,
For the rest of your life!
And...
It will still make sense.
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Keep applying the smelling salts!
Some are coming around.

Those standing on their feet...
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Madness driven and pushed to the edge.
Everything they believe in lays crushed and dead.
A compromise can not be reached!
They seek a singeing that burns within.
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The ones that do not listen,
Seem the ones who can hurt the most.
The reckless ones!
Living without a care in the world.
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