<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443187" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That Has Not Been Your Objective</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will not slip into wickedness, <br>Because that is what you wish.<br>Nor will I pray to be forgiven of sins.<br>Or temptations you have teased me with.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not the one, <br>To be conditioned how to live.<br>With your beliefs thrown upon me, <br>To keep me feeling of myself as negative.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This process you have chosen, <br>To diminish my identity.<br>Will never sit well...<br>With contradictions you uphold.<br>And do not dispel.<br>But choose to dangle in front of me, <br>As a process of an equality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to find within restrictions, <br>A limitation to place my need to be me...<br>Will never satisfy an acceptance of a life, <br>That is mine! <br>With a pride and dignity I carry inside.<br>With a presence I do not seek for you to define.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To you I do not owe an existence, <br>By which I will sit in a wickedness...<br>Inflicted by your wishes, <br>To teach as lessons preached.<br>In sermons from pulpits to have me reach...<br>For wings in the beyond.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While you use my ignorance, <br>To leech from me my freedom? <br>In a continued display that maintains disrespect.<br>And you want me to believe, <br>This is all I can expect? <br>If ever you see me on my knees...<br>Not a vision of you do I have, <br>Coming to my aid with aims to please.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And blessings I have received from God, <br>Has taught me the clarity of that! <br>You are not the creator of my breath.<br>Or separate dreams kept, <br>To fulfill you can meet to satisfy or have met.<br>And I have known that has not been your objective!</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=443187" data-title="That Has Not Been Your Objective de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I will not slip into wickedness, Because that is what you wish. Nor will I pray to be forgiven of sins. Or temptations you have teased me with. I am not the one, To be conditioned how to live. With your beliefs thrown upon me, To keep me feeli..."></div> </div> </div>

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