<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536057" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Also Rise (Homage to Maya Angelou)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been used, abused, mistreated, and even overheated, but still I also rise<br>I have been denied, compromised, and even ostracized, but yet I still also rise<br>I have been called outdated, jaded, and mutilated, but here I still also rise<br>I have been hated, mentally castrated, looted, and even been uprooted, but still I also rise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been scorned, adorned, and reborn, but yet I still also rise<br>I have been beaten up, beaten down, and almost ended up underground but yet I also still rise<br>I have been cheated on, crapped on, and walked on but yet I still also rise<br>I have been treat as a fool, used as a tool, treated so cruel, but yet I still seem to also rise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been neglected, disrespected, rejected, and yes I also rise<br>I have been a token, my heart has broken, I’ve misspoken, and I still also rise<br>I have been accused, bruised, refused, confused, and even reused, but I still also rise<br>I have been pushed to the side, kicked in the backside, been steamed dried, and yes I even cried, but yet I still also rise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have been slapped in the face, can’t return to my birthplace, entered foreign airspace, and felt a woman’s warm embrace, yet I still also rise<br>I have been the victim of oppression, obsession, the recession, and a downward transgression but here I still also rise<br>I have been battered, life shattered, lost everything that mattered, yet I still also rise<br>I have felt the hurt, treated like dirt, forgetting to stay alert, and for all that it is worth I still will also rise</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfred+Mellers">Wilfred Mellers</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=536057" data-title="I Also Rise (Homage to Maya Angelou) de Wilfred Mellers" data-description="I have been used, abused, mistreated, and even overheated, but still I also rise I have been denied, compromised, and even ostracized, but yet I still also rise I have been called outdated, jaded, and mutilated, but here I still also rise I have b..."></div> </div> </div>

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