<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Back and Forth...Back and Forth!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once it is determined, <br>A person has a 'special' rendition of life? <br>You know...<br>Someone 'we' may believe has a party going on...<br>In their heads.<br>And it is a private party? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is sometimes better, <br>To pretend we hear the melody.<br>Especially if a desire is shown, <br>To communicate with us.<br>From wherever they may be 'inside'.<br>With all of the activity no one can hear outside.<br>But suspects 'something inside' occupies! <br>Although nothing may OR may not be there at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we wish not to take chances and offend? <br>So we begin to keep our lips closed and nod our heads.<br>Hoping, eventually, a toleration overcomes us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We begin to pat our feet. <br>And shake our heads slowly from side to side.<br>With eyes fixed we do this...<br>Wanting not to be noticed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Slowly we begin...<br>Back and forth...back and forth.<br>Our heads we shake! <br>Observing and attempting to communicate.<br>Back and forth...back and forth<br>Our heads we shake! <br>Observing and attempting to communicate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keeping up with this sustained movement.<br>Patting our feet and biting on a lower lip.<br>Agreeing...<br>But not understanding, <br>What it is we agree with.<br>And we ask ourselves, <br>'Why am I putting myself through this? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back and forth...back and forth, <br>Our heads we shake! <br>Observing and attempting to communicate.<br>Keeping up with a sustained beat.<br>Patting our feet and biting on a lower lip.<br>And we ask ourselves, <br>'Why am I putting myself through this? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And miraculously, <br>As if that Excedrin headache suddenly goes...<br>We find our minds in an accepted peace. <br>Numbed! <br>Yet peaceful.<br>And so proud we are, <br>We have kept our patience!</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=433077" data-title="Back and Forth...Back and Forth! de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Once it is determined, A person has a 'special' rendition of life? You know... Someone 'we' may believe has a party going on... In their heads. And it is a private party? It is sometimes better, To pretend we hear the melody. Especially if a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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