<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=439579" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nation Builders</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even those carrying pails of sand, <br>Would be considered nation builders.<br>To bring a pride and gleam to their land.<br>And restore a sense of dignity.<br>Whispered by many, <br>As a need to progress...<br>A much needed unity, <br>Professed digresses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a collective motivation, <br>To renew and rid them of stagnation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However...<br>There are too many among them, <br>Who perceive that kind of effort...<br>As an introduction to diminish them to laborers.<br>An act of slavery! <br>Many see as not being free.<br>Free to come and go as they please.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this, to them, is absurd! <br>They then refuse to hear another word.<br>Or validate and comprehend, <br>Anything at all...<br>That might bring enlightenment to them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With no opportunity to voice their opinion? <br>With no opinion addressed to be heard? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Who on Earth do 'they' think we are? <br>Cattle? <br>Sheep? <br>Animals in a blinded herd? ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And already the rumors and innuendos, <br>Have stopped them in their tracks.<br>Some have started a petition.<br>Detailing their objections...<br>Not only to that! <br>But also...<br>To the quality of sand.<br>And the color and sizes of the pails, <br>To be carried and hauled.<br>Who would do the scheduling? <br>And what hours can be expected? <br>What about the pay? <br>Would good pay wages prevail? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how would this activity, <br>Produce their needs and feed traditions...<br>With customary holidays.<br>Could time away, <br>Be used as vacation and/or sick pay? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the people decided to sit in defiance.<br>Waiting to be approached.<br>And hopefully to be given time, <br>To debate their concerns....<br>Many have stated they will dispell.<br>And reproach.<br>To do this well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'These are just plans suggested.<br>To rebuild and prosper.<br>Not yet to manifest! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~At whose expense and benefit? ~<br>Remarked the respected elder of the village! <br>Standing with folded arms.<br>On a dirt path in protest.</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=439579" data-title="Nation Builders de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Even those carrying pails of sand, Would be considered nation builders. To bring a pride and gleam to their land. And restore a sense of dignity. Whispered by many, As a need to progress... A much needed unity, Professed digresses. In a collec..."></div> </div> </div>

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