<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436266" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Grateful For This Consciousness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mold and crafted, <br>Shaped and tweaked.<br>Here I am <br>With memories bittersweet.<br>And I stand on my feet, <br>Knowing who and what I am.<br>Grateful for this consciousness, <br>And blessed to be this man! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bold and unafraid to speak, <br>About exposed injustices...<br>I observe on urban streets! <br>I realize my connection<br>Is linked within me deep.<br>I am so much a part of this, <br>So much I am restless...<br>And I can not sleep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Told of limitations born<br>Upon my heritage.<br>Given statistics I am shown<br>To keep my thoughts negative! <br>But I am more, <br>Than flesh one sees of color.<br>My feelings are genuinely fused...<br>And these abusing views, <br>Of my brother being used<br>Bestows no peace, <br>on my mind... <br>Like some others! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mold and crafted, <br>Shaped and tweaked.<br>Here I am <br>With memories bittersweet.<br>And I stand on my feet, <br>Knowing who and what I am.<br>Grateful for this consciousness, <br>And blessed to be this man!</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=436266" data-title="Grateful For This Consciousness de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Mold and crafted, Shaped and tweaked. Here I am With memories bittersweet. And I stand on my feet, Knowing who and what I am. Grateful for this consciousness, And blessed to be this man! Bold and unafraid to speak, About exposed injustices...."></div> </div> </div>

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