<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443963" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>They Did Not Sell Their Souls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behind walls they hid, <br>An occupied attachment...<br>With that which they believed, <br>Was a life real with materialism.<br>'Things' that gave them reason...<br>To laugh at others not up to their standards.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The days have come, <br>And standards they welcomed are vanishing! <br>Walls that protected them with deceit, <br>Are being chipped away to display them trembling! <br>They are frightened and exposed.<br>There is no where for them to go! <br>And those slandered and defamed by name, <br>Appear refreshed with a strength kept! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They did not sell their souls.<br>Those forced to bleed in public! <br>And were adorned with enlightment, <br>That had the value of precious gold! <br>And the Kingdom of God...<br>Bestowed upon their paths great treasures! <br>They 'could' laugh if they chose.<br>But their joy and happiness...<br>Was too wondrous of a reward, <br>To reflect upon an expected bitterness missing! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A revengeful eye placed upon others...<br>Was not from among them, <br>This druther that they drew...<br>In petty whispers! <br>Or a wish to renew to review with anger. <br>Their journey was to continue to praise God! <br>And 'that' they always knew.</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=443963" data-title="They Did Not Sell Their Souls de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Behind walls they hid, An occupied attachment... With that which they believed, Was a life real with materialism. 'Things' that gave them reason... To laugh at others not up to their standards. The days have come, And standards they welcomed a..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black