<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436760" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Am 'First' A Human Being</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had walked around for decades, <br>Feeling and shouldering emotional pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I decided I had nothing to gain...<br>By accepting this as an invitation, <br>To prove I could endure...<br>With a strength to regard as bravery? <br>No one had to point out to me, <br>Just how crazy this was.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am 'first' a human being! <br>And I no longer have to adapt to that fact.<br>To me that has been shown.<br>And to others I make that known! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am 'first' a human being! <br>Any other layers some choose to address...<br>I have learned to let it be expressed.<br>But to cause me stress to stay to become effective? <br>No.<br>These days I do not live in those times.</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=436760" data-title="I Am 'First' A Human Being de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I had walked around for decades, Feeling and shouldering emotional pain. When I decided I had nothing to gain... By accepting this as an invitation, To prove I could endure... With a strength to regard as bravery? No one had to point out to me..."></div> </div> </div>

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