<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436052" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Getting Down and Funky, Staying Low and Earthy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first time I made attempts, <br>To be mature and endure those who weren't.<br>In my neighborhood, <br>Of aging children.<br>My attempts did not work.<br>In fact they provoked those who chose, <br>To remain irresponsible.<br>And had not yet been introduced, <br>To accountability.<br>Something they accuse others for not doing.<br>You know.<br>Those and them, <br>Who are suppose to care about us.<br>More than we care for and about ourselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those conversations are still used to convince, <br>The many loitering around playgrounds.<br>Seeking to play their familiar games.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today with age and maturity experienced.<br>I come into contact with those refusing to make sense.<br>Those who believe life is a telling of an endless joke.<br>And laugh at the keeping of their insecurities hidden, <br>Behind masks that change with fashionable fads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I observe their children who are no longer 'kids'.<br>Many are limited to an ignorance lived.<br>And they are raising their offspring to disrespect.<br>As I witness those of us now elders.<br>Doing our best to break a sweat, <br>Getting down and funky.<br>Staying low and Earthy.<br>As if this is an investment we hand over to a future.<br>With expectations that a quality of life diminishing, <br>Will deliver us to a consciousness to grasp overnight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's not enough praying on knees that can be done, <br>To awaken those with nothing but time and lives to waste.</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=436052" data-title="Getting Down and Funky, Staying Low and Earthy de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="The first time I made attempts, To be mature and endure those who weren't. In my neighborhood, Of aging children. My attempts did not work. In fact they provoked those who chose, To remain irresponsible. And had not yet been introduced, To acc..."></div> </div> </div>

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