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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448508" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Want to Exist- Mary's Story</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Answer me this; <br>riddle me that; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">enigma-surrounded<br>I retreat, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to the isolated and the cruel snide<br>for solace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">against you and others<br>who<br>think this is a debate, <br>or argument, <br>when for me<br>it is about <br>whether I exist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, gentlemen, <br>ladies we engage here<br>not in idle gossip wars<br>for me this is more serious<br>and masks, <br>despite my telling my self<br>it is less than that, <br>in fact, <br>for me<br>mental survival is at stake here; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">all the more so <br>when I see it is not that way for thee; <br> <br>it makes me feel smaller still<br>that you can play with life<br>indeed, even in this conversation; <br> <br>as if for you<br>nothing is a stake; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">oblivious to, <br>that for me, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">all is at risk; <br>the half-healed wound<br>stabbed again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no quarter here<br>asked for<br>or given; <br>you must die metaphorically<br>for me<br>to have just one moment<br>to exist; <br> <br>as I resist<br>illogically<br>to save myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All this<br>I know<br>sounds crazy; <br> <br>through all this<br>I am aware<br>that none of it makes sense; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if I had control<br>I would resist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the point is<br>I don't<br>and I can't <br>and I must save<br>not only myself<br>but all the others too<br>to avoid the mental obituary<br>that life<br>seeks to write for me and them<br>every day, each day, in every situation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are playing for the joy of the game; <br>I am playing for the right to exist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crazy? <br>I know.<br>I don't know what is wrong with them.<br>Why can't they see<br>what they are doing to me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why are they so out of touch<br>with reality? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell me who is the crazy one? <br>Why is my reality<br>the crazy one? <br> <br>This rule makes no sense.<br>It is<br>well<br>crazy<br>to deny me<br>what I need to exist-<br>which is<br>after all<br>the need to <br>maintain my dignity<br>in the face of the<br>brutal facts of my life; <br> <br>I really don't matter; , <br>no special talents<br>one among a mass<br>average-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when<br>everyone says<br>I should be special<br>in some way<br>but<br>in fact I know I am not-<br>I am average, <br>barely<br>having<br>a rationale to exist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So does this all mean<br>I have no value? <br> <br>No, I exist.<br>There is the problem: <br>people treat me<br>at though<br>I don't.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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riddle me that; 

enigma-surrounded
I retreat, 

to the isolated and the cruel snide
for solace

against you and others
who
think this is a debate, 
or argument, 
when for me
it is about 
whether I exist.

No, gentlemen, 
ladies w..."></div>
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