<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437242" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>IF It Has Taken Years to Inflict 'This</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If it has taken years to inflict, <br>The awareness of fear and conflict.<br>It is going to take a complete letting go, <br>Of all those 'stable' things we've come to know...<br>As unshakable standards, <br>Demanded by those who command.<br>With full acknowledgement, <br>Of an invested ignorance...<br>That has not returned a dividend since, <br>Implemented.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However, <br>There has been a decadent waste worshipped.<br>By a taste uninhibited by displays of disrespect.<br>As grown to be expected as accepted.<br>And...<br>IF it has taken years to inflict 'this' awareness, <br>Of fear and conflict.<br>It is going to take a complete letting go, <br>Of all those 'stable' things we've come to know...<br>As unshakable standards, <br>Demanded by those who command.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since nothing as it was or had been then...<br>Is recognizable enough to bluff over boundaries.<br>Or to fight for the occupation of turf! <br>To realize after many lives die...<br>Gone is the vanity and the struggle over worth.</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=437242" data-title="IF It Has Taken Years to Inflict 'This de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="If it has taken years to inflict, The awareness of fear and conflict. It is going to take a complete letting go, Of all those 'stable' things we've come to know... As unshakable standards, Demanded by those who command. With full acknowledgemen..."></div> </div> </div>

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