<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433662" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Causes and Affects</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not into that community madness thing.<br>You know...<br>The kind that unifies with speeches for peace, <br>Two hours after a fresh drive by? <br>Complete with domestic violence, <br>And silent prayer vigils.<br>With tear stained faces...<br>To mask the commonplace, <br>Disrespect and self neglect! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Somehow...<br>Those re-inactments, <br>Squeezes from me...<br>Every last dropp of joy I have.<br>For a round of aging sentiments? <br>Complete with Bible thumpers...<br>Singing hymns with scriptures preached.<br>And these same folks can't speak to me, <br>When they pass me on the streets? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone's not receiving the message, <br>And what can and should be done! <br>To 'overcome'! <br>But guess whose steps moves away from this mess! <br>Divorced and totally agitation free? <br>Appealing to my peace of mind...<br>I find belongs to me these days! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can you see in my eyes the absence of 'craze'? <br>I wish I could share with you more of it.<br>But it took too long to arrive.<br>And I value that...<br>Much more than recycled efforts! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truth in reassessment! <br>That's my daily affirmation! <br>And your approach...<br>Has problems dealing with the causes and affects, <br>Of a perfected ignorance! <br>If folks don't wish to know...<br>Or care about their own growth.<br>How many marches do you think it will take...<br>For them to locate an identity that unifies, <br>An acceptance of self? <br>Before or after 'Lifting Every Voice in Song'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is rumored, <br>Harriet Tubman only had a flashlight, <br>To lead folks out of the darkness! <br>Today...<br>Everyone has a cellphone.<br>And 'still' can not comprehend, <br>A text message sent! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I rush to get a monthly bus pass, <br>To keep it real and freshly communicated.<br>With...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Commuters'? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exactly! <br>And free of surcharges.</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=433662" data-title="Causes and Affects de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Not into that community madness thing. You know... The kind that unifies with speeches for peace, Two hours after a fresh drive by? Complete with domestic violence, And silent prayer vigils. With tear stained faces... To mask the commonplace, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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