<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445235" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Used Against You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has to be traumatic, <br>To have a comfort stripped from you.<br>To have someone forcibly take reality...<br>And turn your world into a living hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has to be daunting, <br>To have someone else take your resources, <br>And do what they choose with them.<br>Creating friction between your family...<br>And perhaps, <br>Long acquired friends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It has to be emotionally devastating, <br>To know everything you have or had...<br>No longer is in your possession.<br>It has to be...<br>Not as severe as what has happened, <br>To my ancestors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At least you were not sold like a slave.<br>Just treated like one.<br>Like an animal used to do someone else's 'bidding'.<br>Used to make someone else's life more comfortable.<br>Fooled.<br>As deceit... <br>Was and 'still' is, <br>Used against you! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remember using the 'N' word with abandonment? <br>Tossed between you and your business associates...<br>As parting gifts to those you abused.<br>For sport and fun! <br>Like you secretly have done.<br>And you privately still do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These days for you...<br>Have to be quite eye opening! <br>As drenching awareness pours upon your consciousness...<br>With every dropp of it, <br>Straining to maintain pretensions.<br>And squeezing a draining brain to find fresh antics, <br>With less financial support to recover lost dignities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This 'has' to be...<br>Something you had not planned, <br>But must endure! <br>Hopefully it will not take over four hundred years.<br>That's a long time to be subjected to another's bondage...<br>For purposes to feed their greed, <br>And keep their riches harvested.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But then again...<br>You are not left without a few skills you've mastered.<br>These transitions do come in cycles, <br>You know? <br>Keep the faith!</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=445235" data-title="Used Against You de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="It has to be traumatic, To have a comfort stripped from you. To have someone forcibly take reality... And turn your world into a living hell. It has to be daunting, To have someone else take your resources, And do what they choose with them. C..."></div> </div> </div>

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