<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gifts In Their Lives</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">People who tell it like it is, <br>To those fortunate with patience to listen.<br>Know they are blessed to have people like this, <br>As gifts...<br>In their lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those who run and hide defying, <br>In complaints to others...<br>Criticize and despise what to them has been told.<br>With a crying to sigh on accustomed shoulders to hold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many one day will wish, <br>People who tell it like it is...<br>Would be more in numbers in their midst.<br>And had been given their respect.<br>Without a quickened dismissing them to exist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What has happened to those people, <br>Who were not afraid to speak the truth? <br>All we have around us now, <br>Are those deceiving with corruption to pursue.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~That's not difficult to answer at all.<br>When was the last time you allowed your delusions, <br>To sit with a willingness to chat with truth? ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'well...<br>I...er...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~And while you search your mind for a response.<br>Who did you call to convince, <br>Your feelings were hurt deliberately? <br>And this was an intention that was meant.<br>That brought a pouting to your lips, <br>Eternally.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well...<br>I didn't like what was said and how it was said to me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~But deceptions you've embraced as your close friends.<br>And I am sure you have been feeling a comfort you condone.<br>With a protective excusing wall of defense.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well...<br>I...er, <br>You don't know me to say what it is I do.'</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=436077" data-title="Gifts In Their Lives de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="People who tell it like it is, To those fortunate with patience to listen. Know they are blessed to have people like this, As gifts... In their lives. And those who run and hide defying, In complaints to others... Criticize and despise what to..."></div> </div> </div>

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