<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433694" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chances Missed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With promises of a greatness awaiting, <br>How can one depend on a satisfaction...<br>That will give comfort that comes from it? <br>With a wish that a spotlight, <br>Soothes an ego needing to feed and please.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feasting on philosophies, <br>May treat with a benefit...<br>Those nourishing on a composite, <br>Of strict diets mixed with myths.<br>Squeezing the adventure out of any of this, <br>When no advantage is recognized...<br>As one anticipates with a fading contemplation, <br>The satiating taste of what fades away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Especially, <br>If days and months and years are spent...<br>Hoping that unexpected luck, <br>Comes before the passing of nightfall.<br>And many a night have fallen upon those, <br>Giving new meanings...<br>To their interpretation of procrastination.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And gone is the daring done, <br>When one begins to witness...<br>Both the effects and process of a noticeable aging.<br>With the signs of youth diminishing in exuberant flair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh my! <br>What are 'these' around my eyes? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Traces of crows feet.<br>Don't worry.<br>They will be back to finish the dance.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those dreams eagerly pursued at one time, <br>Become subdued with a reminiscing...<br>Of those 'what ifs' wished and chances missed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That wasn't a very nice thing to say.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Here...<br>Put on your glasses.<br>Do I have a look as if I seek your vote? <br>I am not a politician.<br>You're getting old.<br>Get over it.~</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=433694" data-title="Chances Missed de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="With promises of a greatness awaiting, How can one depend on a satisfaction... That will give comfort that comes from it? With a wish that a spotlight, Soothes an ego needing to feed and please. Feasting on philosophies, May treat with a bene..."></div> </div> </div>

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