<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436453" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Here Is My Resumé</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We...<br>You and me.<br>Have spent too much time, <br>Playing charades.<br>Instead of being in the parade, <br>To live our lives.<br>We stood by cheering or booing others on...<br>To leave our own lifelines disconnected.<br>Nothing to protect or keep us from being neglected.<br>We've been disrespectful of ourselves.<br>And we expect...<br>A rescue mission to come and find us, <br>In a wilderness of mess we nested...<br>To willfully let it become infested? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't look at me...<br>With readied criticisms! <br>I have been prepared all my life, <br>To voice my thoughts.<br>Whether wrong or right...<br>Day or night! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have not chosen flight as my expression of rebellion! <br>Many were those times I took to the streets, <br>To become my own Grand Marshal.<br>Even though it was disregarded as a display of ego.<br>But I did not compromise my dignity.<br>And I see none of that...<br>OR pride around! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We...<br>You and me.<br>Have spent too much time, <br>Playing charades.<br>Instead of being in the parade, <br>To live our lives.<br>We stood by cheering or booing others on...<br>To leave our own lifelines disconnected.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some have chosen to flaunt their pretensions.<br>Others went on to do good deeds.<br>Very few I see could care less about their own survival.<br>And you accuse me of being insensitive? <br>Remember this...<br>I have always kept my identity intact! <br>I didn't sell my soul to trinkets.<br>To play games of 'I-Can-Out-Shine'<br>Never did I find the time to laugh at anyone.<br>Even though I did think...<br>Those I now see in sorrow, <br>Were completely out of their minds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We...<br>You and me.<br>Have spent too much time, <br>Playing charades.<br>Instead of being in the parade, <br>To live our lives.<br>We stood by cheering or booing others on...<br>To leave our own lifelines disconnected.<br>Nothing to protect or keep us from being neglected.<br>We've been disrespectful of ourselves.<br>And we expect...<br>A rescue mission to come and find us, <br>In a wilderness of mess we nested...<br>To willfully let it become infested? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here is my resumé! <br>And there is nothing I have earned, <br>That spells out rejection on it! <br>I've gained from my despair.<br>And licked my own damn wounds...<br>With a wish to assist others heal! <br>Do you know how that feels...<br>To have your own turn away, <br>From that reach to appeal? <br>And I am glad those who now cry, <br>Did not find me qualified! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Self-serving? <br>Yes...it is! <br>And well deserved.</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=436453" data-title="Here Is My Resumé de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="We... You and me. Have spent too much time, Playing charades. Instead of being in the parade, To live our lives. We stood by cheering or booing others on... To leave our own lifelines disconnected. Nothing to protect or keep us from being neglec..."></div> </div> </div>

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