<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441258" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Proud to Have Themselves Treated Like Children</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course they have depicted me as a fool.<br>Wouldn't you...<br>If I came along to infect, <br>A collective ignorance the others project! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I give them credit for putting that label on me early.<br>I had always been a maverick.<br>And accused of not being down to Earth.<br>You know the kind...<br>Blind by accomplishments, <br>That provoked and stirred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know the kind...<br>Proud and dignified.<br>From the ghetto but bestowed with self worth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know the kind...<br>Trying to be somebody, <br>When those around me...<br>Were satisfied to be clowns and jerks! <br>Enacting sterotypical images, <br>Without self motivation.<br>Or identities to exert! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know the kind...<br>Those who complain about their lives.<br>And proud to have themselves, <br>Treated like children.<br>And disrespected like dirt! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course they have depicted me as a fool.<br>Wouldn't you...<br>If I came along to infect, <br>A collective ignorance the others project! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look around you! <br>Those that are accepted...<br>Have neglected themselves.<br>And are totally conditioned to live fenced in! <br>Undisciplined with no respect.<br>For themselves or anyone else! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As they are taught to appreciated their own neglect! <br>And this is what they believe, <br>Are their true identities they wish to perceive! <br>Fed to them as they crave and eat! <br>And skillfully done...<br>With a purpose to ignore, <br>A welcomed self defeat.</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=441258" data-title="Proud to Have Themselves Treated Like Children de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Of course they have depicted me as a fool. Wouldn't you... If I came along to infect, A collective ignorance the others project! I give them credit for putting that label on me early. I had always been a maverick. And accused of not being down ..."></div> </div> </div>

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