<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443519" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Light of Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We come to live.<br>Not to follow as shadows.<br>We come to reflect...<br>The best of efforts.<br>To glow in the giving of respect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are here to influence this experience.<br>In support of others.<br>Not to distort their paths.<br>Or bestow upon their journeys...<br>Obstacles we inject! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We need not wish, <br>For these acts to be done.<br>To selfishly benefit! <br>When eventually...<br>There is none! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are individually energized.<br>All of us are, <br>By the rays from the Sun.<br>To appreciate everyone's gifts given! <br>Not try to take away.<br>But share, grow and obey.<br>That which within us is divinely sent.<br>Minds to adventure.<br>Not to despise and hide in devilment.<br>To deceive to end in shadows...<br>Alone to grieve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We come to live.<br>Not to follow as shadows.<br>We come to reflect...<br>The best of efforts.<br>In deeds that are sewn, <br>To produce an increased 'betterment'.<br>Making this known as it is shown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not to suffer from our deceits.<br>In belief there comes a gain maintained.<br>When tears from our eyes produce nothing, <br>But rain.<br>And overflowing suffering sustained! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We come to live.<br>Not to follow as shadows.<br>To discover too late...<br>When our 'lights' are turned out, <br>That darkness awaits our fate.<br>And that experience...<br>Is seldom in need of replication! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dedicated darkness, <br>Has its own agenda! <br>And only then do we seem to get the message.<br>Taught in a silence.<br>Yet 'missed' when given the light of life! <br>That should excell in the dedication of growth! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But greed has fed us into blindness! <br>Behind which we...<br>Allow ourselves to follow!</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=443519" data-title="The Light of Life de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="We come to live. Not to follow as shadows. We come to reflect... The best of efforts. To glow in the giving of respect. We are here to influence this experience. In support of others. Not to distort their paths. Or bestow upon their journeys... O..."></div> </div> </div>

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