<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444474" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Get Done And With Competence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't intend to offend when I begin, <br>To write...<br>It just happens, <br>Within my scope of a life I define...<br>From my point of view.<br>And, <br>Hey...<br>This point of view is mine! <br>Today...<br>I am not selling congeniality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor am I embittered with that kind of...<br>Mood swinging attitude, <br>Like some say I am since I do walk, <br>As if I've got swagger.<br>And not pulling myself, <br>Through a field of molasses.<br>You know...<br>Like the ones who humble themselves, <br>To be accepted while filling out a job application.<br>With their bowed heads and upturned eyes? <br>And their smile-on-cue demeanors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am respectful not a clown! <br>And I do not 'yes' my way through conversations.<br>If I have an opinion...<br>I might express it 'If' I am challenged, <br>To apply my experience and intelligence...<br>When communicating a seriousness left, <br>I wish to leave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although I have had my share of injustices.<br>Some blatant and some masked as if...<br>I am to understand my minority status, <br>As a declared human being.<br>And people who approach me that way, <br>Are left learning a few lessons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The world is a classroom.'<br>Whenever there is a need to be taught, <br>A few things about life.<br>Since I do enjoy delivering...<br>Some concepts of my own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't often 'trip' like that! <br>And it does offend those who believe, <br>I should know my place! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And their place? <br>Not to get in my way...<br>If I am expected to perform a task, <br>To get done and with competence.<br>Which to 'them' and those like them...<br>Is another thing that offends.</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=444474" data-title="To Get Done And With Competence de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I don't intend to offend when I begin, To write... It just happens, Within my scope of a life I define... From my point of view. And, Hey... This point of view is mine! Today... I am not selling congeniality. Nor am I embittered with that kin..."></div> </div> </div>

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