<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445883" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When the Testing Comes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1952...<br>I took my first steps on a stage.<br>The Bushnell Memorial Auditorium...<br>As it was called in those days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And today in 2008, <br>I look back and ask myself...<br>What steps did I make, <br>I least appreciate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And today I can honestly say...<br>I've been blessed in every way.<br>And there is not one step I've taken, <br>I regret.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The obstacles and challenges were not easy.<br>Nor having to be patient, <br>With those who purposedly stood on my path.<br>Believing I had no identity.<br>And I was some kind of test! <br>I had been for them.<br>And today I am still for others.<br>And when the testing comes...<br>I am not the one who fails!</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=445883" data-title="When the Testing Comes de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="In 1952... I took my first steps on a stage. The Bushnell Memorial Auditorium... As it was called in those days. And today in 2008, I look back and ask myself... What steps did I make, I least appreciate. And today I can honestly say... I've b..."></div> </div> </div>

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