<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444086" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This I Have I Been Shown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remember those days, <br>Seeing people cross a street...<br>To avoid the ones hungry and homeless? <br>With a looking down from their held high noses, <br>As if to evaluate those in need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you remember experiencing hard times, <br>Knee deep in troubles...<br>And those you knew abandoned you? <br>To leave you and wouldn't even speak...<br>IF they saw you on the street or anywhere publicly.<br>With their evaluations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you remember getting up on your own two feet, <br>And determined to beat the odds? <br>Do you remember beating those odds, <br>To find yourself feeling blessed...<br>Confessing your gratefulness to those, <br>Who had not a clue who you were? <br>Although...<br>You remember those days, <br>Seeing them cross the street to avoid speaking? <br>But...<br>You have no problem at all assisting them, <br>As they experience homelessness and hunger.<br>And you are not there to evaluate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you remember experiencing hard times, <br>Knee deep in troubles...<br>And those you knew abandoned you? <br>To leave you and wouldn't even speak...<br>IF they saw you on the street or anywhere publicly? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you remember those days keeping your faith, <br>When that was all that you had to display? <br>Wishing you could rub a dime in your pocket.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you remember giving your last five dollars away, <br>Knowing it was okay? <br>And WHO and WHAT knew what it took to make you happy.<br>With a delivering to you all your needs? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do.<br>And I don't need a hint or a clue from anyone to know this.<br>Nor their self righteous evaluations.<br>And I take pride in knowing from where it was I came.<br>I've taken full responsibility for my actions, <br>With a pause to hesitate.<br>And I will never find blame to fault anyone, <br>For the most fantastic lessons I have ever learned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have long awakened to know, <br>The Creator does not always favor...<br>Those impeccably dress who detest others, <br>Given images to test as assignments...<br>To uncover where one's heart is located.<br>This I have been shown, <br>Many times.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And...<br>Most times those who find themselves, <br>In positions to evaluate others...<br>Can not escape from being assessed, <br>By tests they are unaware to them had been given.</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=444086" data-title="This I Have I Been Shown de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Remember those days, Seeing people cross a street... To avoid the ones hungry and homeless? With a looking down from their held high noses, As if to evaluate those in need. Do you remember experiencing hard times, Knee deep in troubles... And..."></div> </div> </div>

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