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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433144" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Battered From The War of Delusion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My needs.<br>That's what they are.<br>For too long, <br>I kept them captivated...<br>With an absence I ignored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My desires were explored, <br>In dreams and wishes.<br>I allowed my needs to be evaluated.<br>To become incompleted! <br>Depleted...<br>To live as others believed I should.<br>To be there with an empathy disposed, <br>By others quick to display insincerety.<br>At my expense.<br>I was not expected to have sense enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To listen and not be heard.<br>To care for those thoughtless...<br>How I spent my days.<br>Whether sick or crazed.<br>What my feelings were did not faze them at all.<br>I was not suppose to show them.<br>Or feel them below the surface of my skin.<br>As if I was wrapped and packaged with pretense.<br>I had been connected to something, <br>To them made no sense.<br>Offended I became to an ignorance.<br>This had to end...<br>With a defending against such offensiveness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when I announced my needs were mine...<br>I could not find anyone to agree, <br>But me.<br>I declared them my priority.<br>As well as my life! <br>I was called selfish.<br>Knowing within me I was right! <br>And without a fight...<br>I agreed and gathered my emotions.<br>And I set into motion my needs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My search for happiness ended.<br>I had it to give.<br>But so few had that to offer.<br>They were there to pleasure others...<br>As if I had no other reason to live.<br>But to be there for them! <br>And no one here for me...<br>To encourage and restore, <br>An energy seeping.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That has all been changed, <br>When peace of mind found me! <br>With needs no longer questioned to identify.<br>No explanations to qualify or kept denied.<br>They were simple and scattered all over the place.<br>I stopped trying to find them.<br>With a disgrace embraced and welcomed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that's when they all came back...<br>Intact! <br>Battered from the war of delusion, <br>That I could live without my needs being pleased! <br>Self absorbed? <br>Definitely! <br>Apologetic? <br>Only God knows how much this is deserved.<br>And yes...<br>I have the nerve to confess, <br>I am happy! <br>With no ego to prove my contentment.<br>Or deeds done to validate involvement to prove...<br>Sacrifices of commitment.<br>Those battles have been documented!</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>
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That's what they are.
For too long, 
I kept them captivated...
With an absence I ignored.

My desires were explored, 
In dreams and wishes.
I allowed my needs to be evaluated.
To become incompleted! 
Depleted...
To live as others believe..."></div>
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