Lawrence S. Pertillar Standing Poems

You don't know the place I come from.
I'll leave you standing alone!
Standing alone.
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If I could trade off my moody disposition,
For one that didn't openly convey...
Something done has struck a nerve.
And I didn't feel deserving,
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What is it going to take,
To see what it is...
For what it is.
And how it got that way,
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I thank you,
For this opportunity.

As a proud and upstanding,
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The children of today only look that way.
Wings untested with an appearance,
Of innocence.
But they are far more intelligent,
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I can be a shadow on anyone's wall.
But I can not do that,
Reflecting my own light.
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My downfall?
I am extremely independent.
And most of the time stubborn,
In my lament.
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Why aren't you dancing under the spotlight?
Why not dazzle the audience,
With that side of your talents?
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It doesn't matter how high they raise a ceiling.
It is the floor those folks need to put their feet on.
And open a few doors to exchange the foul air.
They've grown too accustomed to themselves.
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Estimating a number from observations seen,
It would be too difficult to produce the exact figure.
Of the ones complaining,
About environments they wish to be in.
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Whatever it was you thought you had time to do.
And with a familiar procrastination...
You would do what pleases you.
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While you were chasing rainbows...
And playing hopscotch throughout your life.
There were those committed,
To doing things to get done.
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I've been a grown man since I was a child.
With chores, duties and responsibilities assigned,
I had to accomplish and achieve.
And I don't 'believe' this to be true.
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