<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=435261" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Expatriated! With a Wish to Ease Into This Leisurely</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Expatriated! <br>From continued thoughts of conflicting loyalties.<br>Feeling a need to escape from trivia.<br>And unchanged steadfast philosophies.<br>Fixed in frozen mindsets.<br>To fizzle correctness and burn sensibiliities.<br>Paraded by those who refuse to 'see' reality! <br>Or make attempts to move in that direction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a growing need within me to release, <br>From nonstop debates that take place to feed...<br>On those who sacrifice to push forward from devisiveness.<br>With a discipline to keep my vision on that which pleases me! <br>A life to live...<br>Acknowledging my happiness.<br>With a wish to ease into it leisurely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I believe in a deserved peace one recognizes and keeps.<br>Free from turmoil that brews, <br>As if this is what one should harvest...<br>With expectations for gloom to reap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My deeds planted were for joy to bloom.<br>Not to excite to see weeds grow! <br>Nor to give them room in my mind to breed.<br>No! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've learned to discriminate, <br>Between self inflicted ignorance...<br>And participating in repeated stupidity.<br>Lessons at first learned with difficulty.<br>But learned I did! <br>With an acceptance of isolating maturity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A life to live acknowledging my happiness.<br>With a wish to ease into it leisurely...<br>Is as basic as I desire to get.<br>With no convincing what it is that pleases me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Expatriated! <br>With a wish to ease into this leisurely.<br>That's it.<br>Requiring no BA, MA, BS or PhD degree! <br>This is the peace I seek for me.<br>And free of declaration...<br>Of who it is I 'should' or 'should not' be.</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=435261" data-title="Expatriated! With a Wish to Ease Into This Leisurely de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Expatriated! From continued thoughts of conflicting loyalties. Feeling a need to escape from trivia. And unchanged steadfast philosophies. Fixed in frozen mindsets. To fizzle correctness and burn sensibiliities. Paraded by those who refuse to 'se..."></div> </div> </div>

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