<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437014" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Needed To Be Naked</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I began to realize, <br>My insecurities victimized...<br>Wishes I had to plant good deeds, <br>Those ambitions I had 'then'...<br>I made more challenging.<br>I had to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I needed to be naked! <br>Bared with flaws exposed.<br>And free of masquerade...<br>That began to entrap me in smothering denial.<br>I witnessed too many living like this.<br>Cursed and motivated by pre-meditation.<br>Dwelling on the surface without depth.<br>And at a loss to live life with passion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I needed to be naked! <br>Bared, <br>And free of masquerade.<br>If I had to strip to magnetize my dreams, <br>So be it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those barriers placed around a comfort zone, <br>I 'had' to remove.<br>I invited criticisms.<br>I wanted to grow.<br>And I knew I couldn't do it...<br>If all I did was dance with pretension, <br>With others who were equally well hidden.<br>And a keeping in rhythm with 'that'...<br>Was not me!</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=437014" data-title="I Needed To Be Naked de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="When I began to realize, My insecurities victimized... Wishes I had to plant good deeds, Those ambitions I had 'then'... I made more challenging. I had to. I needed to be naked! Bared with flaws exposed. And free of masquerade... That began to..."></div> </div> </div>

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