<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Obviousness Of The Evidence Shown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Throughout my life...<br>And others who could attest to my sentiments.<br>I have had others who believed they knew me.<br>To say that I wasn't 'that' enough for 'their' liking.<br>Can you imagine? <br>As if I was born to prove to them...<br>My life and efforts were on a rating scale.<br>To please their whims and noninvolvements.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or that I wasn't a 'real' this to claim that, <br>But to be just what they said I 'was' or wasn't.<br>To demean any attempts I made in anything...<br>I 'wanted' to do to get done. <br>And the color of my skin, <br>Had a lot to do with that too.<br>Oh...<br>I got it from both sides of the fence.<br>With some painful comments, <br>Forever to be remembered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or I thought I was better than others.<br>I like that one! <br>Because I spoke to have others understand, <br>What it was I was saying.<br>I spoke too clearly.<br>LOL...<br>Seriously. <br>I have actually had people tell me that.<br>I wish I was joking but I am not.<br>I was told I spoke as if I was a caucasian.<br>As if I wanted to be! <br>A black boy living in a black neighborhood.<br>With black friends and surrounded by blackness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or...<br>Check this out! <br>If I really wanted to do what I wanted to do, <br>I'd move and go somewhere else.<br>Because 'they' weren't going to allow me, <br>To do what I wanted to do in the place I was born.<br>Uh...<br>Excuse? <br>Are you looking for an exit sign? <br>Because I am not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well...<br>Thank God I didn't allow their comments, <br>To ruin my ambitions.<br>Like others they have done with a doing, <br>Who bought into that kind of evilness...<br>To achieve exactly what the obviousness, <br>Of the evidence shown as proof of 'their' doings.<br>Not mine! <br>My wishes and dreams are not to be limited! <br>Period.<br>With an exclamation!</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=443570" data-title="The Obviousness Of The Evidence Shown de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Throughout my life... And others who could attest to my sentiments. I have had others who believed they knew me. To say that I wasn't 'that' enough for 'their' liking. Can you imagine? As if I was born to prove to them... My life and efforts were..."></div> </div> </div>

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