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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437586" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In It For the Sake of Image...And, Perhaps Contrast!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Free to be who I 'is' ain't cool.<br>For those who wish to depict me as a fool.<br>Or entertain their whims...<br>To fantasize my depressed beginnings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I refuse to be ignorant.<br>I refuse to pretend, <br>My mind I don't use.<br>Or welcome an abused ending, <br>Of my life experience.<br>To be documented in an expedience.<br>With an erased historic contribution I make! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No time do I spend dreaming of wings in an afterlife...<br>With others in white robes! <br>As harps play.<br>While visions increase...<br>As I pray on my knees, <br>For a pair of golden slippers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have flipped that image! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't accept because I am black...<br>That I should expect to be kept held back.<br>Because I lack a qualified 'intelligence'.<br>Compared to those expressing none at all! <br>Except for those certified as approved robots! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not into kicking down doors for them to open.<br>Nor do I neglect with disrespect...<br>Those who elect to keep faith and hope.<br>Whatever their motivation...<br>I support.<br>But I do object to the use of symbolism.<br>It conflicts with the 'Everywhere And In All Things'<br>God Is! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor do I choose to hang out with those...<br>Who are taught to feel remorseful.<br>As they dope up, <br>To choke on 'good' weed...<br>With feelings to get 'high'<br>To increase a low self esteem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That ain't me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I ain't seeking equality either.<br>Preached by leechers...<br>Who enjoy seeing me dance, <br>As I reach for 'their' expectations.<br>Prancing down the aisles of churches...<br>To release my last earned dollar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However...<br>I do not object to those feeling charitable, <br>In my behave.<br>Donations I will accept...<br>Yes! Most definitely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am seeking to be me.<br>Without a rehabilitation stamp on my behind! <br>I said I accept 'charity'.<br>Nothing emblazed on my butt! <br>As anyone's piece of precious property.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And...<br>Without being branded a minority.<br>By those suppressing me with the falsity, <br>Of their superiority over me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's one lesson I never quite understood.<br>And failed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm not living my life to claim limitation! <br>Or seek a Tarzan for rescue! <br>I was not raise to await those days to come.<br>Nor flee from obstacles! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That ain't me! <br>I have flipped that image! <br>And others...<br>Some my sit to equip themselves with! <br>In labor to discourage me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I have observed their numbers dwindling, <br>In frustration! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While they watch my every move...<br>The shirts on their backs are being sold, <br>To the highest bidder! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An updated version of slavery! <br>Marketed on Wall Street! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my knowledge could have saved them, <br>From embarrassment.<br>But not once have I been asked, <br>How I manage to maneuver...<br>With their feet strapped to my back! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think they had been doing that for the contrast! <br>Since they are just in it, <br>For the sake of image...<br>Sales.<br>And a bottom line, <br>That's borrowed! <br>To keep the gush of an ignorance, <br>That bleeds!</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>
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For those who wish to depict me as a fool.
Or entertain their whims...
To fantasize my depressed beginnings.

I refuse to be ignorant.
I refuse to pretend, 
My mind I don't use.
Or welcome an abused ending, 
Of my..."></div>
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