Lawrence S Pertillar

Remember this…

To silence your lips.Believing problems others had…Were not yours to exist.And you pointed your fingers,With judgements passed?While your assets dwindled.As those ‘others’ you trashed!Your opinion now expressed…Has less influence than your crab grass.Or the effective use of a lawn mower,When it was needed.To do a job now long ignored!It is better left to collect cobwebs…

Okay!

You don’t have to accept what I say.I take what I said back.You are not the fool I called you,When you loaned someone one hundred dollars…Who promised to pay you back!However…I wouldn’t take someone by their word,If I did not know their name and/or address.Or how to trace their tracks.And I could care less…How dramatic…

Often folks are depicted,

Most times than none,This is done by relatives and friends of some.With a demeaning of one’s character.From an innocence that is done!Now…If the one who is victimized,Wins the lottery…Or some other monetary prize.Relatives, friends and those unknown,Expose themselves from beyond closed doors…And everywhere else,To make themselves known.Just to share their good wishes!And…Of course a taste,Of…

Do I care?

Do I pretend not to?Yes.And what is it you pretend to do?Are you like me?Pretending to care less too?But first to arrive to vocalize…To express without regret,Your deeply felt like no one else’s…Unconcern!You leave for others to hear loudly.And believe from you they’ve learned.

What difference does it make,

What difference will you fake next…If you say you’ve made mistakes,When those mistakes leave heartbreak…Over again,In a thoughtless process unconsciously taken!And this is not about money,Or being Afrocentric.This is about identity and principle.One’s integrity and dignity.This is about those areas of life,That have never dawned on you.Because you are just too caught up in ‘things’.And…

What money has yet to accomplish?

By the benefit of having it.Or bring such excruciating agony,To those who have too much of it.Too cause undenying grief.And much sweet relief to a dieing economy,Overtaxed and burdened…With the construction of more prisons,To house millions addicted…Will free us all.‘They are not addicted to money!They are addicted with the teasing done,By the unspoken limitations of…