<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438385" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just Old and Tired Methods</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remembered being 'tagged' smart.<br>And intelligent.<br>Not only to make me feel different...<br>But to 'label' my qualities.<br>To ensure I was to feel...<br>A degree of being out of place! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if an ability to think, <br>For many of them then...<br>Was a disease.<br>No one wanted to catch! <br>And I was to feel contaminated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thank God I didn't listen.<br>But as a child being stubborn, <br>I wanted to spread my affliction.<br>An addiction I had to be totally annoying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that I am much older and wiser, <br>I think of those who had been afraid...<br>To be themselves.<br>Conditioned they were and enslaved.<br>And creating their own comforting discomforts...<br>Surrounded by a decadence taught and instilled! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And today, <br>I see the dismay in urban cities.<br>I see the decay allowed by those<br>Who chose ignorance as their way of life, <br>To live.<br>Seeking welfare handouts or corporate 'bailouts' <br>To erase the affects of quick slick greed.<br>That came to ease the feeding... <br>Of a pretentious way of life.<br>Bleeding...<br>To leave them suffering in strife and sorrow.<br>On borrowed time and on someone else's fortunes, <br>They wish to pick over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These 'traps' are nothing new! <br>They are just old and tired methods...<br>To expand the addiction of self indulgence, <br>At someone's expense! <br>And refusing a complete overhaul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those of 'smart intelligent' are sought now, <br>To sacrifice their lives lived...<br>With an empathy and good deeds, <br>To lift these fools from a collective lazy gluttony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even though they may be despised for their efforts, <br>Brilliance and talents claimed.<br>They are relied upon to shoulder...<br>The brunt of darkness.</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=438385" data-title="Just Old and Tired Methods de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I remembered being 'tagged' smart. And intelligent. Not only to make me feel different... But to 'label' my qualities. To ensure I was to feel... A degree of being out of place! As if an ability to think, For many of them then... Was a disease...."></div> </div> </div>

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