<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440400" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On the Lower Level</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the lower level, <br>Squinting eyes sour...<br>Behind disguising masks.<br>Worn by those refusing to remove them.<br>A task they have not mastered.<br>Even though the light dims! <br>Any that was kept once, <br>And stored within.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the lower level, <br>A feeding of darkness<br>Continues to flourish.<br>A nourishment encouraged fails, <br>To purge them.<br>Weaknesses begun...<br>Left many to seige a seething, <br>As natural as the breathing process is done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They pray to be released, <br>But cease to eliminate the increasing anger.<br>They creep upon themselves like beasts.<br>Leaving hearts mangled to dangle like bait...<br>For awaiting vultures.<br>Enslaved by their own rusting culture.<br>Distributed like mulch, <br>To advance the growth of weeds! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Estranged from the guidance of angels and 'spirits'.<br>A depth is reflected but no one goes near it.<br>A fear is suspected and it's rejected quick.<br>The fumes of addiction has settled in too thick! <br>They are sick...<br>And many seem to enjoy dwelling upon this, <br>As it sits.<br>No one wants it to leave...<br>They are pleased with it! <br>If it hinted to go and quit...<br>Their own throats they would split! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Enlightenment is attacked.<br>Strapped to lies and innuendo! <br>And closing the window to a truth held back, <br>Ready to be exposed! <br>But it has been frozen and concealed in traps.<br>Bolted unconsciously to pain and sorrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whatever light is left...<br>Suddenly fades and goes out! <br>Screams and shouts are heard.<br>And those who grew patient to listen, <br>Were not deterred by the disturbance...<br>Blurted to blur! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They knew from 'within'...<br>'Something' came to awaken them, <br>From the shallowness of ignorance, <br>They could not let begin! <br>As they were lifted from the lower level...<br>Deciding to shovel their way, <br>Into a light that did not betray them! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finding in time...<br>Those of like minds, <br>Welcoming to share light! <br>In abundance that excited.<br>A brightness not expressed...<br>And much supressed, <br>On the lower level! <br>Where temptations and distress, <br>Are mixed by those who pass their blessings! <br>Confined to concrete limitations expressed.<br>In the hopes to deliver themselves from bleeding!</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=440400" data-title="On the Lower Level de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="On the lower level, Squinting eyes sour... Behind disguising masks. Worn by those refusing to remove them. A task they have not mastered. Even though the light dims! Any that was kept once, And stored within. On the lower level, A feeding of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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