<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442799" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Still I Sit With This Bitterness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">After fifty years, <br>You are much too late! <br>To entice any interests<br>To bait my creative tastes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not been waiting, <br>For your awareness to discover...<br>An identity you have suppressed, <br>That now finds you recovered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was given 'gifts'<br>It was my duty to persist...<br>To lift them to heights.<br>Not to hide them in fright! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A veil from your eyes have been lifted.<br>You 'now' want to express your worth.<br>You now find something within yourself...<br>That you have found more valuable than dirt! <br>Weren't you the one to say back then, <br>That I was the scum of the Earth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that scum is priceless! <br>And you find that 'scum'...<br>Has become 'royalty' to serve? <br>How humbling an 'act' I observe! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">After fifty years, <br>You are much too late! <br>To entice any interests<br>To bait my creative tastes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not been waiting, <br>For your awareness to discover...<br>An identity you have suppressed, <br>That now finds you recovered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was given 'gifts'<br>It was my duty to persist...<br>To lift them to heights.<br>Not to hide them in fright! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A veil from your eyes have been lifted.<br>You 'now' want to express your worth.<br>You now find something within yourself...<br>That you have found more valuable than dirt! <br>Weren't you the one to say back then, <br>That I was the scum of the Earth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that scum is priceless! <br>And you find that 'scum'...<br>Has become 'royalty' to serve? <br>For some.<br>How humbling an 'act' I observe! <br>And still I sit with this bitterness...<br>I have yet to find strength to overcome.<br>As I hold back anger, <br>Sometimes in fits! <br>Biting my lips to be pleasant to everyone!</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=442799" data-title="Still I Sit With This Bitterness de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="After fifty years, You are much too late! To entice any interests To bait my creative tastes. I have not been waiting, For your awareness to discover... An identity you have suppressed, That now finds you recovered. When I was given 'gifts' ..."></div> </div> </div>

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