<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=483018" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pedestal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sit upon a pedestal <br>Of the once so proud and haughty fool<br>And watch the day die to night<br>In a painful blood red light<br>I ask the fools who place me here<br>Do you truly not yet fear? <br>That a fall from heights such as these<br>Will bring a nation to its knees<br>They laugh and mock and disbelieve<br>Yet I wonder now why I do not leave<br>This place where idiots sit on thrones<br>To fly or flee to a place I can be alone<br>Where my actions hold my shame or fame<br>Yet none can blame their actions on my name<br>A place where I am my own to rule<br>Not a scapegoat on a forsaken pedestal</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rebecca+Pepper">Rebecca Pepper</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=483018" data-title="Pedestal de Rebecca Pepper" data-description="I sit upon a pedestal Of the once so proud and haughty fool And watch the day die to night In a painful blood red light I ask the fools who place me here Do you truly not yet fear? That a fall from heights such as these Will bring a nation to it..."></div> </div> </div>

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