<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434812" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dribbling Balls Being Playfully Tossed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For decades they've kept the same charade.<br>To stand on urban corners...<br>Idled to brag, <br>About children abandoned they fathered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some even spent jail time sharing cells with sons.<br>Not having a clue what this has done.<br>And everyone of them meet and greet everyday.<br>Wasting time and their lives away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wish to unify this ignorance.<br>With games of sports played...<br>As their babies mamas, <br>Look on from behind fences.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With beliefs this connects, <br>To benefit a long lasting wisdom in retrospect.<br>Yet a maturity from their minds, <br>Has been dissected! <br>And a respect for progress, <br>Is left rejected.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For decades they've kept the same charade.<br>To stand on urban corners...<br>Idled to brag, <br>About children abandoned they fathered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a society that has condoned this, <br>Does not seem to bother to comprehend...<br>The feeding of these cycles, <br>Weaken and demean.<br>Once this investment has been deposited...<br>The return is mediocrity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And mediocrity neither glitters brightly.<br>Nor does it sparkle with a sheen.<br>Especially when motivation...<br>Has been demoted and freed of expectations! <br>Cheered on by those mesmerized...<br>By the sweat inducing effects, <br>Of dribbling balls being playfully tossed!</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=434812" data-title="Dribbling Balls Being Playfully Tossed de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="For decades they've kept the same charade. To stand on urban corners... Idled to brag, About children abandoned they fathered. Some even spent jail time sharing cells with sons. Not having a clue what this has done. And everyone of them meet and..."></div> </div> </div>

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