<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436372" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Have You Ever Done That Before?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your 'things' do not make you a better human being.<br>You may believe they establish you a status.<br>But there is something that can be said about pretense...<br>That leaves those hungering to spend their time, <br>With people who express a common sense...<br>From thought producing minds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is a rarity to find folks, <br>Who have not been tainted or provoked...<br>By teased materialistic dreams.<br>Or the kind of people who become identified...<br>By where they live and what they drive.<br>Living a quality of life that seems delightfully contrived.<br>Yet inside of them there is a frightful hollowness...<br>That is silently screamed, <br>And quietly demeaning them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your 'things' do not make you a better human being.<br>And their absence, <br>Also has not revealed you possess an integrity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With your identity gone packed away with your 'things'...<br>And no integrity left you can display or bring, <br>What is it that you claim you can give to offer? <br>Superficiality? <br>Okay...<br>And, <br>What else do you have besides that? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you have anything we can chew on that's concrete? <br>How about a conversation we all can contribute.<br>Have you ever done that before? <br>Had you considered comprehending after listening, <br>To complete sentences...<br>Delivered to your assuming ears.</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=436372" data-title="Have You Ever Done That Before? de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Your 'things' do not make you a better human being. You may believe they establish you a status. But there is something that can be said about pretense... That leaves those hungering to spend their time, With people who express a common sense... ..."></div> </div> </div>

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