<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446813" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Have Nothing To 'Anyone' To Prove</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SOMETIMES...<br>Not often, <br>I am amused to meet...<br>Someone from my childhood, <br>Who attempts to re-invent...<br>The events I lived through, <br>From 'their' memory! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how good it was, <br>In those days long gone...<br>When I was made to do chores, <br>As other kids played...<br>And I was home taking out garbage, <br>Washing dishes...<br>And mopping and sweeping floors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I look back at those days today, <br>I can say I am no longer bitter...<br>By how I was raised.<br>Or the fact that I had been called names.<br>But a fear I did not express.<br>Although I walked with my head down, <br>Feeling insecure and shamed.<br>'You're gonna fix this God? '<br>I would 'always' ask! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today? <br>I live not too far from that same neighborhood.<br>And God has made so many things 'right' in my life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That bitterness that use to sit within me? <br>Has been replaced by so much joy these days.<br>~Gee...<br>Is this 'me' feeling all this happiness? ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am tempted to evaluate others.<br>But I can 'feel' my mother daring me to do it.<br>And hearing her voice whisper in my ear to say...<br>'Larry, you have nothing to 'anyone' to prove.'</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=446813" data-title="You Have Nothing To 'Anyone' To Prove de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="SOMETIMES... Not often, I am amused to meet... Someone from my childhood, Who attempts to re-invent... The events I lived through, From 'their' memory! And how good it was, In those days long gone... When I was made to do chores, As other k..."></div> </div> </div>

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