<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=435839" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fresh Distractions Can Not Do That</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Am I satisfied with fresh distractions? <br>The season of pleasure seems to have ceased...<br>A weakness to satisfy quick attractions.<br>The relevance? <br>Has left no importance to reminisce.<br>Dismissing this I can say I do not miss.<br>I can resist this hold upon my ego.<br>And the strength of simplistic wants...<br>No longer taunts me with a needing.<br>A complacency has arrived! <br>And has come to feed a peace of mind, <br>I control with all its comforts.<br>A shallowness is left behind.<br>I find a pace to keep a rat race fading.<br>Am I satisfied with fresh distractions? <br>To collect and say they are mine? <br>To prove they are there...<br>Just to ignore.<br>To become bored with desires, <br>Searching for more.<br>Why should I repeat defeats I've conquered? <br>What for do I wish to fulfill my life, <br>With 'things' to dismiss? <br>'Things' that provide no lasting happiness.<br>Yet on display just to say I too can play...<br>Games to delay and stunt my purpose.<br>Not in these times...<br>When I am finding a freedom, <br>That has lightened a load on my back! <br>I am with renewed vision, <br>I will not allow to retract.<br>Fresh distractions can not do that! <br>They come to trap, saddle and burden.<br>I no longer wish to pay that price...<br>To appear as if that kind of life, <br>For me pleases! <br>I'd rather hear others say I have nothing...<br>Than to give up 'everything'<br>A nothingness to them means! <br>I have an abundance that can not be seen.<br>I did not know that...<br>Until I came out of darkness, <br>To behold the worth of my total experience.</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=435839" data-title="Fresh Distractions Can Not Do That de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Am I satisfied with fresh distractions? The season of pleasure seems to have ceased... A weakness to satisfy quick attractions. The relevance? Has left no importance to reminisce. Dismissing this I can say I do not miss. I can resist this hold u..."></div> </div> </div>

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