<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444824" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Travesty of Brilliance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A travesty that shadows brilliance, <br>Contorts the showing of it...<br>In atmospheres where foolishness, <br>Seems worshipped and condoned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who have a brilliance, <br>Are made to feel freaks.<br>Made to feel unusual whatever they do...<br>And often how they speak.<br>With a clarity understood! <br>That is not butchered on the streets.<br>Are pointed out as smart and/or 'lucky'.<br>And should move away to succeed.<br>Since where they live and feel a comfort...<br>Only disrespect they can expect to receive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A travesty that shadows brilliance, <br>Leaves many disadvantaged...<br>With an unconscious acceptance, <br>Of a stifling ignorance.<br>Smothering them and in their decadence.<br>And...<br>In many communities where unity is professed...<br>A preferred association with ignorance, <br>Many profess as their success.<br>With a known evidence of it achieved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be brilliant and exposed, <br>Threatens those with insecurities.<br>Expecially those who are clueless, <br>With no connection to identity or to what that means.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To achieve mediocrity is a stretch for many! <br>And for more it is out of reach.<br>And those who are brilliant in the own communities...<br>Are treated as if they have leprosy.<br>OR something that disfigures them to be ostracized, <br>Shunned and banned.<br>Ridiculed by minds diseased.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this travesty of brilliance, <br>Sweeps across a degraded land! <br>Showing just what influences.<br>And how corrupted insecurities...<br>Can destroy and ruin by command.</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=444824" data-title="Travesty of Brilliance de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="A travesty that shadows brilliance, Contorts the showing of it... In atmospheres where foolishness, Seems worshipped and condoned. Those who have a brilliance, Are made to feel freaks. Made to feel unusual whatever they do... And often how the..."></div> </div> </div>

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