<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436838" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Chose to Like My Own Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chose to like my own life.<br>It wasn't easy then to do it.<br>Since many then pretended, <br>With no identifiable dignity.<br>Or a pride that had reality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chose to live my life right.<br>Free of masquerades, <br>And...<br>Those days I spent charading.<br>With dim light to pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chose to greet the morning Sun.<br>Feeling a freedom at last.<br>Like never before I felt could be done.<br>I opened the door inside of me once closed.<br>And released my own mind...<br>To find a truth I could believe, <br>See and daily breathe.<br>And wanting more of 'me' exposed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I chose to like my own life.<br>Not finding fault or wrong with it.<br>Or defending what for me felt right.<br>What for me I knew existed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chose to like my own life to live, <br>As I do...<br>To prove, <br>It is mine to live it as I choose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this day I choose to live my life! <br>And so peaceful do I sleep at night.<br>Free of masquerades, <br>And...<br>Those days I spent charading, <br>Behind an assortment of masks.<br>With no direction on my path, <br>Cemented and paved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I chose to like my own life.<br>It wasn't easy then.<br>Since many then pretended.<br>As if that was their task.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And pretending for me, <br>Has ended.<br>As clear as unstained glass, <br>Allows light to pass through it brighter...<br>With no intention to leave a blemish. <br>Coming as it does, <br>To radiate that which lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this day I choose to live my life! <br>For me...and you too.<br>To get those deeds we need to do, <br>Done.<br>Knowing now we have identified, <br>And overcomed the fear...<br>Of liking one another like we like ourselves.</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=436838" data-title="I Chose to Like My Own Life de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I chose to like my own life. It wasn't easy then to do it. Since many then pretended, With no identifiable dignity. Or a pride that had reality. I chose to live my life right. Free of masquerades, And... Those days I spent charading. With dim l..."></div> </div> </div>

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