<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=482543" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rucksack Full Of Stones</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Babe… <br>Born perfect, innocent, ready<br>Cast into a corrupt world</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Parents eagerly present<br>A family heirloom<br>A patchwork rucksack<br>Part-filled with stones<br>To a wide-eyed child </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Begins the journey…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Child given stones of many shapes, sizes<br>Stones of pity, sorrow, fear, trauma<br>Stones filled with words like “No”<br>Stones filled with ugly phrases<br>Stones filled with abuse, punishment, pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rucksack seams burgeon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A growing Soul shouts </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Enough”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Emptying begins…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through lessons, experiences, prayer<br>One by one<br>Removed the stones<br>Rucksack lightens<br>By the Grace of God, <br>Finally emptied</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another Babe born<br>Rucksack beckons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Not this time”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rucksack flung<br>Into Wisdom’s Fire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Consumed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ends a vicious cycle…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ray+Lucero">Ray Lucero</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=482543" data-title="Rucksack Full Of Stones de Ray Lucero" data-description="A Babe… Born perfect, innocent, ready Cast into a corrupt world Parents eagerly present A family heirloom A patchwork rucksack Part-filled with stones To a wide-eyed child Begins the journey… Child given stones of many shapes, sizes Stone..."></div> </div> </div>

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