<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436548" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hollow Rituals</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they were young, <br>Adorable and cute.<br>You announced to me...<br>That they were 'your' children.<br>And I respected that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that they've grown older...<br>Opinionated, loud and abusive.<br>Lazy and disrespecting.<br>Impatient with no time to listen.<br>You do not hold yourself responsible.<br>Nor accountable for their actions.<br>In fact you are quick, <br>To rely on your selective memory.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Remember...<br>I was there observing, <br>Those lessons taught to them you did teach.<br>In a loud judgemental roar...<br>You sometimes to them preached.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And your self righteous activities...<br>Are there to be observed in church! <br>And you tell me you can not remember, <br>Your own pastor's sermons? <br>Although you dress impeccably...<br>As if this is rehearsed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That is why I find it difficult, <br>To follow hollow rituals.<br>Or believe anyone feels...<br>What they sing in spirituals.<br>With voices raised in serious praise! <br>For them it is just a routine...<br>Without depth and very little meaning.<br>Like a 'buck' that is passed...<br>And has lost its worth.</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=436548" data-title="Hollow Rituals de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="When they were young, Adorable and cute. You announced to me... That they were 'your' children. And I respected that. Now that they've grown older... Opinionated, loud and abusive. Lazy and disrespecting. Impatient with no time to listen. You do..."></div> </div> </div>

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