<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432643" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Acknowledgement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am who I am! <br>Accepted.<br>I walk a path I understand.<br>I can not reject it! <br>Identity I have identified.<br>Those years in denial...<br>Have been long pushed aside.<br>I no longer beat myself up! <br>Emotions within me I do not hide.<br>I do not find excuses, <br>To seduce with alibis...<br>Reduced to tears I cry! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Diversity I welcome with glee.<br>This journey given to me is my destiny.<br>I get up each day feeling blessed as I pray.<br>Acknowledgement has me cemented.<br>Regardless of what may come my way...<br>Or what others may say, <br>They believe I should portray! <br>In pieces pulled to please each day.<br>Dissecting me, <br>To leave myself abandoned and betrayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the man I am.<br>Unafraid to display... <br>This 'gift' God has given, <br>Commanding as I obey! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am who I am! <br>Comprehending without demands, <br>Or expecting acceptance. <br>With rejection wherever I stand! <br>I am not seeking clarification.<br>Or directions I anticipate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dedicate each step I take to purpose.<br>My motivation is to be me completely! <br>And all that I am is fulfilled! <br>There is no want or need I wish...<br>That God does not deliver! <br>I am here at His will and testament.<br>No other definition do I represent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my voice will not be silenced, <br>Before spoken words with content meant...<br>Reach to beseech those listening, <br>Are heard to compliment...<br>These times my mind now finds descending.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this mission I observe that preserves my devotion, <br>Was not created to become aborted.<br>Nor distorted to be teased, <br>By the ease of temptation! <br>Although this hold on my strength, <br>Can be weakened.<br>But not at length.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432643" data-title="Acknowledgement de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am who I am! Accepted. I walk a path I understand. I can not reject it! Identity I have identified. Those years in denial... Have been long pushed aside. I no longer beat myself up! Emotions within me I do not hide. I do not find excuses, To..."></div> </div> </div>

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