<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440020" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not On My Priority List</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was suppose to be understood...<br>My feeling of being suffocated, <br>Had been part of an initiation! <br>And if I felt any discomfort, <br>From the smothering...<br>I would not be true to my roots.<br>Since I would not concede, <br>To be among those of defeated beatings! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as I looked around, <br>To discover those who found...<br>This as an acceptance.<br>To shuffle and jive their way through life! <br>I thought it would be best, <br>For my own interests.<br>To become selected as the one...<br>They would ostracize! <br>Not thinking that this request...<br>Anyone would object.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course this had never happened before! <br>No one had ever requested, <br>To be rejected 'and' ignored? <br>I explained to them I had other quests.<br>And being suppressed by my own kind...<br>Was not on my priority list! <br>I recommended they select...<br>Another candidate.<br>One who would jump with excitement.<br>Without the slightest hint of protest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fact, <br>I suggested they were wasting their time.<br>Since their wishes to fulfill such foolishness...<br>Had been the furthest thing I had on my mind! <br>And I could not believe, <br>The looks I received of shock! <br>I guess the gossip hadn't spread...<br>That I had already been around quite a few blocks! <br>And I wasn't about...<br>Becoming a member of their shuffling crop!</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=440020" data-title="Not On My Priority List de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="It was suppose to be understood... My feeling of being suffocated, Had been part of an initiation! And if I felt any discomfort, From the smothering... I would not be true to my roots. Since I would not concede, To be among those of defeated b..."></div> </div> </div>

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