<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Seated Within Barriers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where was I 'trained'? <br>To use my brain? <br>To realize it had a better use...<br>Than to sit enclosed<br>And left not to expose itself, <br>To receive, perceive and deliver? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Limited to conditions, <br>I was not.<br>Disciplined with responsibility...<br>Came from my parents, <br>Who initiated my awakening.<br>And on many levels.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I felt restricted by depictions...<br>Of where I should be, <br>By those who were 'degreed'<br>To regurgitate philosophies, <br>That did not reflect...<br>A life in the projects.<br>I quite loved and accepted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where was I 'trained'? <br>To use my brain? <br>From teachers who attempted, <br>To keep me seated within barriers.<br>The ones selected to keep me subservient, <br>And self rejecting! <br>Somehow those lessons of limitation, <br>Activated my dreams! <br>The moment I discovered, <br>I desired to rush to be with those I loved...<br>While others were rushing to impress, <br>With the best of their redundancy! <br>I was being instructed to open my eyes.<br>Listen with my ears.<br>And observe the steps...<br>Of those who feared to adventure their own destinies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was 'trained' to watch them.<br>Learn to enjoy the taste of bitterness.<br>Forgive but not condone ignorance...<br>Whether mine or some outside affliction, <br>Meant to keep my life deluded! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where was I 'trained'? <br>To use my brain? <br>Learning how to fly high from my nest.<br>Before any sign of wings came to sprout.<br>I was taught to figure it out.<br>My mind began an inside flight.<br>My insights did not need wings to fly.<br>And as long as no one provided boundaries, <br>They could not show and I refused to see...<br>The training of my brain, <br>Became my property! <br>Since I was too stubborn to confess, <br>A conformity I can reflect.<br>But the testing of it suits me best.<br>I am not restricted to shallow acceptances.<br>An observation that is obvious...<br>Does not confine me to take note! <br>Or attract what I need to feed me, <br>To sustain the light that is on 'my' path! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Limited to conditions, <br>I was not.<br>Disciplined with responsibility...<br>Came from my parents, <br>Who initiated my awakening.<br>And on many levels.<br>They had 'ways' to capture my attention.<br>And I developed a way to obey.<br>I wanted my journey to soar.<br>Knowing that obstacles faced...<br>Delayed but did not erase to replace, <br>My own separate wishes...<br>To become free and dismissed from fear!</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=441952" data-title="Seated Within Barriers de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Where was I 'trained'? To use my brain? To realize it had a better use... Than to sit enclosed And left not to expose itself, To receive, perceive and deliver? Limited to conditions, I was not. Disciplined with responsibility... Came from my..."></div> </div> </div>

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