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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Virtue of Certain Personal Truths</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I do not possess knowledge of the facts<br>I have no answers that are either <br>constant or universal<br>I do not claim to be wise <br>to nature's formulas<br>The only truths I have stumbled upon<br>are personal.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I was not placed upon this rock for myself.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I am certain this much is true.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Accession if far<br>far below my mission<br>I prefer the simple life of the mountain goat<br>to a proverbial life spent climbing the <br>holy corporate mound.<br>It is not my place to gain<br>nor my purpose the acquisition of admiration<br>others more determined in this mind-set<br>may gladly take my share<br>For I forever shall remain<br>just as the empty chair<br>arms waiting, open to all<br>offering comfort to all<br>I was meant to support<br>those trodden tired souls<br>and stone-bruised feet<br>in need of a well, <br>hard earned rest<br>All at my own expense<br>For I see the emptiness<br>of transient transactions<br>and the transparent value of paper<br>and I guffaw in Franklin's <br>bespectacled face! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I find the sufferings of thyself<br>to be perfectly acceptable.<br>However<br>I find it impossible to accept <br>the sufferings of others</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It is not my duty to <br>guide or lead<br>I refuse to follow<br>though I do agree<br>to walk but only<br>side by side <br>trying my best to keep <br>every step in synch<br>every breath striking <br>perfect accord</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I know these facts to be true.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I am but a sponge in the sea<br>absorbing the vastness of <br>these fluid traveling observations</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I prefer the grasp-less personal pursuit <br>of enlightening the soul<br>above holding influence <br>over a sorted mass<br>of hearts and minds.<br>And for this reason <br>do not allow myself <br>to be swayed into the shallow pool <br>come the hunting season of November propaganda.<br>I cry when I see the sociopaths' lecherous lust<br>for power keeping us apart.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Everyday earth is but a maelstrom <br>of inquiries and revelations, <br>every sun marks a harvest ripe with choice<br>Ancient superstition? <br>Public privately funded<br>Theories rooted in science fiction? <br>To Collimate or collide? <br>Let us walk, <br>together, we shall <br>discuss and decide</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Despite our varied <br>and beautiful differences <br>we are all common matter <br>in the all encompassing eye <br>of the universe.<br>Atom and energy paved the way<br>for Adam and Eve<br>You and me and He and she <br>all equally <br>Despite who our parents are<br>brothers and sisters <br>we share the same immortal <br>blood line of the stars<br>not a one of us <br>common or insignificant </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This is our common universal truth.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Now, if I have come into the possession<br>of a single virtue, <br>it's that I keep <br>heart and mind open to all comers.<br>The givers the takers <br>the quiet ones and the self indulgent <br>the self righteous and the wicked<br>the blind and the pensive<br>demagogs and debutantes <br>icons as well as iconoclasts<br>pedagogs and pederasts <br>louts lechers <br>coquettes and sluts<br>maidens mad-men<br>geniuses comedians <br>saints and virgins<br>optimists philosophers <br>capitalists junkies commies <br>hipsters preachers bohemians <br>vagabonds deadbeat dads<br>single working moms<br>demimondes and bon vivants <br>malcontents and misanthropes<br>victims aides and cut-throats</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Whether they offer something of true value<br>or cough up nothing but mirror words and<br>empty dollars as earthly alms</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=401425" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">expecting nothing <br>I welcome all <br>accepting full-heartedly <br>without disappointment<br>that which they deliver to my door</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Gregory+Allen+Uhan">Gregory Allen Uhan</a></strong></div>