<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=432415" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Happiness Kept Has Retired</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is sad to see those achieve a status, <br>That had accomplished a goal to have it unfold...<br>Before their eyes.<br>And caught by surprise, <br>How fast time flies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to stand by and wonder, <br>What to them does it mean...<br>To have spent an entire lifetime, <br>Assisting someone else pursue their dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a devoted talent applied...<br>That could have been used, <br>To do their own 'thing'.<br>But a focus was maintained...<br>On obtaining materialism to claim, <br>And the glittering of 'bling'...<br>Fading to a rust as a game well played, <br>Does a belly up or is discovered to be corrupt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With nothing left to show for a loyalty...<br>But a title given, <br>Expressed to others once impressed.<br>Who today no longer address it.<br>Although memories and a happiness kept, <br>Has retired from those activities...<br>Without a spark left to live one can say, <br>Feels as if to them belongs as an emptiness felt...<br>Goes on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And everyday, <br>More and more of these sad faces...<br>Have looks of dismay that have been betrayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=432415" data-title="A Happiness Kept Has Retired de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="It is sad to see those achieve a status, That had accomplished a goal to have it unfold... Before their eyes. And caught by surprise, How fast time flies. And to stand by and wonder, What to them does it mean... To have spent an entire lifetim..."></div> </div> </div>

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