<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441121" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Praying That It Stays</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is nothing like witnessing to experience, <br>A people living in an environment who have been convinced...<br>Ignorance and subservience is theirs to defend.<br>With an advocating of it that will not see an end.<br>And praying that it stays to forever exist the way it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is nothing like listening to a sermon delivered, <br>From a pulpit where a minister behind it sits...<br>After preaching to receive applause and lots of it.<br>To remind those who sat but now on their feet...<br>How remaining down to Earth to 'him' this pleases.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is nothing like witnessing to experience, <br>A people living in an environment who have been convinced...<br>Ignorance and subservience is theirs to defend.<br>And many wishing to be 'Back Home' again.<br>To walk those rural roads bare foot to visit neighbors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is nothing like listening to a sermon delivered, <br>From a pulpit where a minister behind it sits...<br>After preaching to receive applause and lots of it.<br>To then drive away in a recently purchased Mercedes.<br>To live in comfort and tax free; rewarded for a job well done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is nothing like witnessing to experience, <br>A people living in an environment who have been convinced...<br>Ignorance and subservience is theirs to defend.<br>And the only thing that is wished, <br>Is that their children remember from where it is they came.<br>And proud they would be of them if they did the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Why are you so critical of the people? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Oh...? <br>So what I observe is NOT accepted? ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It's the heritage and the culture, <br>They wish kept preserved.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~I see.<br>How stupid of me to view it any other way.<br>And here I am thinking all of this, <br>Has no historic value to them that benefits.~</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=441121" data-title="Praying That It Stays de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="There is nothing like witnessing to experience, A people living in an environment who have been convinced... Ignorance and subservience is theirs to defend. With an advocating of it that will not see an end. And praying that it stays to forever e..."></div> </div> </div>

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