<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433643" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Casting One's Own Shadow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Call your trip whatever you wish.<br>I've learned not to debate, argue...<br>Or 'franchise' anyone's opinion, <br>As if to make mine! <br>Nor do I agree to evaluate...<br>Someone's statement, <br>Whether a line given to solicit...<br>An opinion I've given in anything I've written.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've learned an exchange of experiences, <br>Is not a possibility.<br>And I've learned this by listening.<br>And this many people seldom do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've been up and down too many times, <br>To discover my own comprehension...<br>About life.<br>My life and how 'my' life is connected.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I found criticisms made of me by others...<br>'Added' to my understanding, <br>If right, wrong or indifferent when given...<br>I still had to brush my own teeth.<br>Walk on my own two feet! <br>And be accountable for my own actions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stopped making excuses, <br>When they began not to make sense to me.<br>I spent more time defending myself...<br>Instead of living my life.<br>And I began to do that...<br>When I started to appreciate myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And 'if' I was to give my advice to anyone...<br>AND...<br>I did say 'if'.<br>I would say this...<br>If anyone finds they are seeking acceptance, <br>On a path they have chosen to take...<br>It is not a path they have chosen.<br>How can it be? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can someone declare something theirs, <br>When others can do the same thing thing? <br>If voices can be heard? <br>Footprints can be seen? <br>And the path one takes has already been paved? <br>That is following...<br>Not casting, <br>One's own shadow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not wish, <br>I demand people to get out of my light.<br>What would be the point, <br>If I am patiently waiting for someone else to decide...<br>Whether or not they want to move out of it? <br>That kind of time I am not giving to anyone! <br>Period.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've learned many lessons.</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=433643" data-title="Casting One's Own Shadow de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Call your trip whatever you wish. I've learned not to debate, argue... Or 'franchise' anyone's opinion, As if to make mine! Nor do I agree to evaluate... Someone's statement, Whether a line given to solicit... An opinion I've given in anything ..."></div> </div> </div>

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