<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437913" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Intoxicated Twigs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Raised on slim chances, <br>And taught to feast on increased poverty<br>To survive in pretense and fear! <br>These children of tomorrow<br>Have fought too long inherited struggles! <br>Battles that have them hip-hopping themselves<br>To solutions mindlessly aimed <br>To gain and maintain quick pleasures! <br>As 'their' fruits dropp spoiled...<br>With soiled dispositions rotting, <br>Before full bloom! <br>Disrespecting a process...<br>That should consume them! <br>Not entomb with despair! <br>Buried in bravado and forgotten.<br>'RIP'ped...from their stunted dreams! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We must make room...<br>And clear that 'space' from devastation.<br>Pasted intentionally to hide realities, <br>We allowed and manifested.<br>Handed to them and watched...<br>As they fed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blaming seeds we planted...<br>For their disappointing growth performance, <br>And lack to self nurture! <br>Dooming them... <br>With a self righteous command to curse, <br>Their steps! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where were we...<br>When these intoxicated twigs<br>Began to fall from steady branches? <br>These foundations aren't created in mid air! <br>They began somewhere...<br>To build and aspire! <br>But were they ever grounded, <br>In roots understood and defined? <br>That is what we have no time to digest! <br>Even though it begins to congest and decay!</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=437913" data-title="Intoxicated Twigs de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Raised on slim chances, And taught to feast on increased poverty To survive in pretense and fear! These children of tomorrow Have fought too long inherited struggles! Battles that have them hip-hopping themselves To solutions mindlessly aimed ..."></div> </div> </div>

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