<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441404" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Races Run and Done Just For Fun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Winning races, <br>Use to mean...<br>A change of pace, <br>Of those high stakes placed...<br>With a bet! <br>And this would excite <br>Those who made them with delight.<br>With a feeling 'something' has been won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today, <br>Races are run...<br>To go through motions! <br>These races run and done just for fun, <br>Are done just for the running.<br>Not to accomplish a thing for anyone.<br>Even the serious ones who have grown tired of the fun, <br>Done...<br>Are feeling a numbness from those races run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the best of political dupings pooped! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With hollow victories achieving nothing.<br>But a cheering of excitement heard, <br>From everyone. <br>In the beginning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a stirring of jeers from those disappointed.<br>Find expectations resume a familiarity.<br>Leaving empty promises mouthed but not yet begun.<br>And a stagnated movement, <br>Returns with clarity.<br>A clarity of reality once hushed and shunned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And everyone begins to see...<br>These races run to go through motions, <br>Produces for them...<br>Hollow victories.<br>And banners once held high, <br>Are hidden.</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=441404" data-title="Races Run and Done Just For Fun de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Winning races, Use to mean... A change of pace, Of those high stakes placed... With a bet! And this would excite Those who made them with delight. With a feeling 'something' has been won. Today, Races are run... To go through motions! These..."></div> </div> </div>

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