<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=435500" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Few and Far Between</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Preferring subservience, <br>Over self determination...<br>Feeds those begging, <br>To be seen with appetites...<br>Under spotlight.<br>Telling tales of struggles.<br>For a fee paid! <br>During the short celebrated days, <br>Of Black History Month.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An enhancement done, <br>Of an identity with committment...<br>Ignoring and resisting resentment, <br>Takes self assurance.<br>And a freedom felt...<br>No one can deny, <br>By the raising of an eyebrow.<br>Feared by those wishing to please, <br>And entertain as appointed.<br>Commissioned to deliver, <br>Minutes of guilt freeing reflections.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But those who are aware and know themselves, <br>With minds untethered or locked in chains...<br>Pierce through empty promises, <br>To be acknowledge when these attractions dim.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Goldleaf wishes to adorn 'wings' <br>In a glorified afterlife with a halo glowed...<br>May be in the eyes of those, <br>Hoping to gain favor.<br>However...<br>Those who do not 'trip' like this.<br>And not conflicted as to who they are...<br>Are few, <br>And far...<br>Between! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who are aware and know themselves...<br>Do not need these scenes, <br>To manifest their ambitions to reach for greatness, <br>Beyond the limits of staged sterotypes.<br>OR delight in such paid performances...<br>To then select from donated boxed meals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If you are going to feed me 'anything'...<br>Feed me your respect! '</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=435500" data-title="Few and Far Between de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Preferring subservience, Over self determination... Feeds those begging, To be seen with appetites... Under spotlight. Telling tales of struggles. For a fee paid! During the short celebrated days, Of Black History Month. An enhancement done, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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