<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=582016" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Was Battered, And Bruised</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the late jimmy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They said I was too slow, <br>Wondered when i'd learn, <br>Though they never taught me.<br>Said I was rude to matters of principle, <br>And read my elegy before my epilogue.<br>Battered my weary spirit - and will, <br>Tore my single soul into shreds, <br>All I managed was barely a whisper - Oh my God! <br>By my very own that i loved, <br>whose very blood flows red like venom, <br>in my dark withered veins, <br>Was left for the double edged streets, <br>Lessons in the offing-cruel to the Dogs, <br>But now I stand on my two legs, <br>Like I never dreamt before, <br>Radiating illuminating strength, <br>Bettered by the bruises of battering, <br>And shaped by the avengers of yester'morrow, <br>By whom I was battered and bruised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wesongah+David">Wesongah David</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=582016" data-title="Was Battered, And Bruised de Wesongah David" data-description="For the late jimmy They said I was too slow, Wondered when i'd learn, Though they never taught me. Said I was rude to matters of principle, And read my elegy before my epilogue. Battered my weary spirit - and will, Tore my single soul into sh..."></div> </div> </div>

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