<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434201" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Daring To Be Defeated</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">People refusing to listen, <br>Create their own dilemmas.<br>They believe an enforcement done, <br>Of their wishes...<br>Retrieves a satisfaction, <br>As expectations are identified.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They lie to themselves and expect understanding.<br>Foolish are their delusions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But an acceptance to be corrected...<br>Is taken for criticisms refused to enhance a growth.<br>People like this want to feel protected, <br>Like a child caught in a lie.<br>With a tantrum to come that is provoked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the circumstances they must face, <br>They don't do that! <br>They rather run to hide inside their minds...<br>Where trappings of safety begin to take place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I don't care if you don't believe me.<br>I don't care...'<br>And alone they weep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">People refusing to listen, <br>Create their own dilemmas.<br>They believe an enforcement done, <br>Of their wishes...<br>Retrieves a satisfaction, <br>As expectations are identified.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A stripping to expose flaws, <br>Is difficult to do.<br>A willingness to be wounded...<br>Speeds up the advancing of a truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when truth is denied, <br>For something less painful to receive and accept...<br>A maturity to gain becomes a stagnation repeated.<br>With a daring to be defeated...<br>Conquered by insecurities, <br>As a surrounding wall that falsely protects.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I don't care if you don't believe me.<br>I don't care...'<br>And alone they weep! <br>Stubbornly affixed to their insecurities, <br>Keeping them appeased and weak! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Daring to be defeated! <br>But defeated by a weakness...<br>Keeps their insecurities appeased.</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=434201" data-title="Daring To Be Defeated de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="People refusing to listen, Create their own dilemmas. They believe an enforcement done, Of their wishes... Retrieves a satisfaction, As expectations are identified. They lie to themselves and expect understanding. Foolish are their delusions. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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