Do I Appear To Be Desperate Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

You did...
Show me heights of your disrespect.
And, you did...
Let it known publicly to address.
This you did...
Regardless of feelings I kept, yet...
You expect from me forgiveness.
And what you did to me to forget.

Look at me!
Do I appear to be desperate.
Look at me!
My hair has turned gray with age.
And lessons I've learned,
I wont repeat to fake away.
Take a look at me!
Do I appear to be desperate.
Do I appear to be in need,
To lose again my dignity.

You did...
Show me heights of your disrespect.
And, you did...
Cause me grief and loneliness.
But you wont,
Come to take my happiness.
It took me years to get it.
With the passing of lessons.
And tears cried to dry I wept.