<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=433882" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Comforted By a Fling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could I be faithful, <br>In a monogamous relationship.<br>Without threats of being attacked, <br>By a hot pot of grits.<br>Or being collared or leashed, <br>With locked wrists.<br>After awakening from a stupor...<br>Listening to someone 'hiss'? <br>Is Christmas celebrated, <br>Every year on December 25th? <br>Yes! It is.<br>And I've tried it...<br>That monogamous bit.<br>And some things for some people, <br>Are better to forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often ask myself this...<br>If I willfully married, <br>And I was conscious of it...<br>My intentions were sincere.<br>My heart was captured.<br>And wide awake I was determined not to quit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was...<br>Mad-ly, <br>In LOVE.<br>Hypnotized and 'whipped'<br>Into a craze...<br>In those days when I declared ownership.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But today I am not in a relationship.<br>The idea of having one frightens.<br>And I am aware enough to admit it.<br>I surrendered my single life twice.<br>Saying 'I Do' and shaking with nervousness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The emotional investment it takes to be involved, <br>Is too stressful when conflicts can not be solved.<br>And time and effort spent...<br>Seems to disengage and dissolve.<br>Senselessness and nonsense, <br>Do not like oil and vinegar mix.<br>No matter how delicious a remembered salad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Growing and learning together is important...<br>When storms and weather begin to change course.<br>Being prepared prevents divorce.<br>And a friendship not there to share...<br>With a maturity to accept flaws? <br>Those dividends given in a relationship, <br>Noticeably come to an end.<br>Any excuse used is the 'cause'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could I be faithful in a monogamous relationship? <br>Again? <br>Well...<br>I have spent a lot of time making bad investments.<br>And the odds do not seem to be in my favor.<br>Although I must say, <br>I am comforted by a fling now and then!</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=433882" data-title="Comforted By a Fling de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Could I be faithful, In a monogamous relationship. Without threats of being attacked, By a hot pot of grits. Or being collared or leashed, With locked wrists. After awakening from a stupor... Listening to someone 'hiss'? Is Christmas celebrate..."></div> </div> </div>

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