<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=434722" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Don't Expect An Apology</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not been a child for so long.<br>So if my offensive demeanor, <br>Comes from an adult mind...<br>Free to express itself from a hiding, <br>You have yet dealt with.<br>Don't be stunned.<br>Or run away in tears! <br>With a nose you sniff.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps you should leave the playground, <br>Of scraped knees, sandboxes<br>And petty childish gossip.<br>I have not been a child for so long.<br>My adventures have been aged on paths...<br>That have shown me a life, <br>To live as it is! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to find myself alone, <br>Being accountable for my steps! <br>Sometimes I have experienced regret.<br>But like all things I have accepted...<br>I am blessed not to stay in one spot, <br>To complain of rain that got me wet! <br>Nor do I get upset...<br>If thunder, lightening and clouds, <br>Are temporarily above my head! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have felt sunshine too many times...<br>To find a moment of whining as a means, <br>That have ever attracted my happiness! <br>A maturity with learning, <br>Has come to me it seems! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if my offensive demeanor, <br>Comes from an adult mind...<br>Free to express itself from a hiding, <br>You have yet dealt with? <br>Don't expect an apology.<br>I only give those when they are meant! <br>And I feel that one should be given.<br>And 'that' no one else gives to me, <br>To determine! <br>I'm in this life to live it! <br>Not to split from it...<br>When my feelings are hurt! <br>Or to dig up dirt to spread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't expect an apology! <br>You 'aint' gettin' one of those.<br>Not from me!</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=434722" data-title="Don't Expect An Apology de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I have not been a child for so long. So if my offensive demeanor, Comes from an adult mind... Free to express itself from a hiding, You have yet dealt with. Don't be stunned. Or run away in tears! With a nose you sniff. Perhaps you should leav..."></div> </div> </div>

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