<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444145" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>This Nakedness You Witness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't think for one moment, <br>I wish to follow in your footsteps.<br>Or that I seek acceptance, <br>To 'allow' from you an approval! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was not granted my life, <br>To struggle or fight to enlighten my mind...<br>To find myself repeating your dreams.<br>I have my own.<br>And none of them that I have shown, <br>Bears your name! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whatever it is you may think of me...<br>Think it! <br>Drink it! <br>Sip it with gossip to lick it up! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And whatever claim to fame I am due, <br>It did not come to me without pain.<br>And 'that' no one I know...<br>Or have been honored to be introduced, <br>Has shared.<br>Or have declared...<br>They have or had wanted to bear.<br>No struggles I know, <br>Came to me without obstacles.<br>And I knew of no one there to share them! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This nakedness you witness...<br>If you observe closely, <br>Is not without scars felt.<br>That I nursed to heal! <br>With faith and gratefulness.<br>And no one but God...<br>Lifted me off my knees! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's IF you ever wish to question, <br>WHO and WHAT powers my strength! <br>It is there and meant to be what it is! <br>And none of it is in disguise.</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=444145" data-title="This Nakedness You Witness de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Don't think for one moment, I wish to follow in your footsteps. Or that I seek acceptance, To 'allow' from you an approval! I was not granted my life, To struggle or fight to enlighten my mind... To find myself repeating your dreams. I have m..."></div> </div> </div>

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