<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436102" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Give Me Something Other Than What Is Preached</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give me liberty...<br>Or something else I can value.<br>The cost of maintaining my freedom...<br>Has already achieved for me deepening debt! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give me a solution.<br>Or something today that makes more sense...<br>Than turning on my TV <br>To watch the media salute crime.<br>With repeated decadence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give me less self righteousness...<br>From those who profess, <br>They harbor no racistness.<br>And yet they do their best...<br>To leave that smothered to go unaddressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give me honesty and truth.<br>Even from a pulpit...<br>These days that is rare! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give me something other than what is preached! <br>Something other than what is exposed, <br>Blatantly on the streets.<br>Give me something other...<br>Than lessons that teach evilness and sin! <br>Give me something other...<br>Than addicting temptations, <br>Left at my doorstep to let in! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give me someone who does 'not' commit a crime...<br>Does prison time.<br>And then 'finds' God...<br>To declare His word to me.<br>Wanting to preach to me from scriptures...<br>And that God has 'revealed' to him...<br>A need I have, <br>He now 'sees'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please! ! <br>Give me something other...<br>Than a rehabilitation done, <br>By those who have not sacrificed their lives...<br>Trying to live a life from the beginning that is right! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I will know there is some positivity...<br>Trying to clean and clear this polluted air! <br>Choking with a reekness. <br>To leave masses insane to make claims, <br>For material gains perceived with deceptions...<br>That no one with 'insight' is aware of their aims.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since everything else...<br>Experienced by those still left with good intentions, <br>Seems to be a marketing of a recycled mess! <br>By those on the 'right' denouncing those 'liberal'<br>Standing on the left! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaving no one to accept responsibility.<br>And those who desire to...<br>Are treated with much disrespect!</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=436102" data-title="Give Me Something Other Than What Is Preached de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Give me liberty... Or something else I can value. The cost of maintaining my freedom... Has already achieved for me deepening debt! Give me a solution. Or something today that makes more sense... Than turning on my TV To watch the media salute ..."></div> </div> </div>

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