<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=439984" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not Here to Beat the Beast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not here to beat the beast.<br>Nor did I come, <br>To sneak a sniff of its presence.<br>Not to cower kneeling in defeat.<br>To please rumors of a haunting...<br>Suffered without investigation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That beast has been feasting, <br>Long before I arrived.<br>And I'm sure...<br>If it knows you are here in fear, <br>It will not suspect<br>I have desires to follow in its footsteps! <br>Wherever it has been claimed to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I am curious, <br>Why you have allowed it to eat<br>From your peace that decreases.<br>While you complain...<br>Little of your gains are left! <br>As you struggle over what remains.<br>Who and why...<br>Decided for you, <br>That should be a position to maintain? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I came to ask the beast to leave.<br>Not to agree or negotiate my presence.<br>Like that beast...<br>I too have needs! <br>And I will not sit in hiding, <br>To decide which needs of mine...<br>The beast can take, <br>Because I sit in indecision! <br>To inflict my own heartaches.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh no! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not here to beat or feed any beast! <br>But I will make an appearance made known.<br>And tell that beast to leave my ass alone! <br>I am not going to endure any conflict, <br>Over that which I know belongs to me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That beast needs to see, <br>I am not afraid! <br>Where is it? <br>And who has said the beast existed?</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=439984" data-title="Not Here to Beat the Beast de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am not here to beat the beast. Nor did I come, To sneak a sniff of its presence. Not to cower kneeling in defeat. To please rumors of a haunting... Suffered without investigation. That beast has been feasting, Long before I arrived. And I'm s..."></div> </div> </div>

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