<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434801" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dreads</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's not a statement of defiance, <br>I wear my hair in dreads.<br>It's who I am...<br>And I'm proud to show them.<br>Naturally...<br>On my head! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I use to keep my hair short and faded...<br>Conservative in conformity! <br>To fit into a 'conscious' acceptance... <br>An unspoken, visual uniformity.<br>Believing to appear like everyone else...<br>Would bestow upon me, <br>A certain respected sense of self.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Having no clue it was 'me' I pursued! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It took me a while to realize, <br>From myself I ran and fled! <br>Then when I 'woke' up clear with understanding...<br>I still had concealed a truthfulness not revealed.<br>My hair is 'nappy'! <br>And when not cut, <br>It dreads! <br>Curling into 'naps'.<br>And feeling comfortable on my head. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How sweet the awakening...<br>To a wholesomeness fed! <br>Not to dred but to wear in pride. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's not a statement of defiance, <br>I wear my hair in dreads.<br>It's who I am...<br>And I'm proud to show them.<br>Naturally...<br>On my head! <br>Dreadlocked. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now that I feel, <br>My best of self can be expressed...<br>I see so many who are trapped in masquerades.<br>Doing their best to project...<br>What they feel someone else, <br>Will accept without protest! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I am so happy I can live my life...<br>With a peace of mind I find at rest! <br>Knowing a simple thing like 'dreads'...<br>Exposes a complete identity I keep.<br>And makes me feel at my very best yet! <br>Instead. <br>Forgetting the 'me' who I thought I knew...<br>And having not one regret! <br>Not within my heart I thread. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Note: <br>Dedicated to those dreadlock wearers<br>who feel the gloriousness of being who they are! <br>And a deep kindred with 'Jah' The Supreme! <br>A strengthening of 'spirit' develops when one<br>becomes...'dread-headed'!</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=434801" data-title="Dreads de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="It's not a statement of defiance, I wear my hair in dreads. It's who I am... And I'm proud to show them. Naturally... On my head! I use to keep my hair short and faded... Conservative in conformity! To fit into a 'conscious' acceptance... An ..."></div> </div> </div>

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