<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434597" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Do I Care That You Are Hurting?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I care that you are hurting? <br>Did you ever care...<br>Period! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You have not been the one, <br>Exclusively in pain! <br>And I am not immune to empathy one bit! <br>Now that you are ready to express 'your' feelings, <br>Those of others are not diminished.<br>Nor did they announce they have left them to quit! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What you are experiencing now...<br>Has no ending to it to finish.<br>You once could afford to ignore<br>The sorrows of others.<br>Do you believe, <br>The grief you have recently received...<br>Brings cheers to those in contant struggle? <br>And you are on their minds, <br>As if you occupy their thoughts...<br>With nothing else but you, <br>To take up their time? <br>Or that you with your sympathies are sought.<br>You have been much too self possessed.<br>Too self-righteously taught! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Very few I know are suffering from guilt! <br>'That' happens to be your own curse...<br>From a life lived in rehearsals.<br>Built, <br>And fenced to separate! <br>This agony you 'dished', <br>Is now yours to contemplate! <br>As you kept in practice to perfect...<br>Deceit and needless hate! <br>Baited.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your issues have never defined my point of view! <br>Do I care that you are hurting? <br>Did you ever care...<br>Period! <br>Without deserting those who did? <br>And you did your best...<br>To disrespect them to mock, <br>Every feeling of theirs in jest. <br>To depict them as being, <br>Low life and negative...<br>Animals who were pests! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I care that you are hurting? <br>Are you aware just how long who has? <br>From those misdeeds done by you in the past! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have learned from you, <br>To return the same concern! <br>And I certainly don't sit, <br>Wondering how 'you' feel! <br>My thoughts are with those who have been dismissed.<br>Not with someone like you who believes...<br>Every step you take, <br>Has been followed and worshipped! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I care that you are hurting? <br>I honestly did not think you could!</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=434597" data-title="Do I Care That You Are Hurting? de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Do I care that you are hurting? Did you ever care... Period! You have not been the one, Exclusively in pain! And I am not immune to empathy one bit! Now that you are ready to express 'your' feelings, Those of others are not diminished. Nor ..."></div> </div> </div>

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