<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437343" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If We Can Accept the Teaching of Our Lessons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gentle is my touch...<br>After I have roughed you up, <br>And busted your gut.<br>To reveal to the both of us...<br>What can and can not be, <br>Taken for granted.<br>With that stage inviting us, <br>To take that next step to test.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, <br>Only then...<br>Can we come to a compromise.<br>Knowing those limitations once unknown...<br>Have been exceeded.<br>With a test administered...<br>Receiving some surprising results, <br>Unexpected...<br>But reflecting a much needed comprehension.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why getting to that point...<br>Has to be painfully exposed.<br>If we are to continue saying, <br>There is a respect...<br>For each other's needs.<br>Without providing the evidence...<br>Is a mystery assigned to mankind.<br>And that evidence is kept, <br>As if in a secretive treasure chest.<br>Teased by a key, <br>Left to dangle in suspense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer will we use that as a requirement, <br>To express our love.<br>That expression of it...<br>Has finally come out of hiding.<br>Heated to be released and freed.<br>To unlock all that has blocked progress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon that evidence being exposed, <br>A breathing becomes easier.<br>Without doubt to question.<br>Opening closed eyes wide.<br>To gaze upon a new avenue...<br>On a 'trip' one sought to take.<br>But clearly sees the pointlessness, <br>Of such mindless travels.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And destinations as they are...<br>You will then know I can be gentle.<br>And I will then know...<br>You no longer take me for a fool! <br>A new day dawns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a relationship shared, <br>That was thought to be unconditional...<br>Will always be ours to understand, <br>Some conditions must be applied...<br>To continue that growth we both admit, <br>Is wished.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If this journey is going to be taken together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those hidden boundaries, <br>Will then be distanced from our minds...<br>Forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And love, <br>Between us...<br>Will be all that is known, <br>And shown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we can accept...<br>The teaching of our lessons.<br>With those adjustments, <br>Defiantly held in a blinding stubbornness...<br>Now forcibly erased effectively from delusion.<br>And is gone from us, <br>To enjoy an established reality...<br>We have adopted.<br>And can say is unencumbered by ignorance.</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=437343" data-title="If We Can Accept the Teaching of Our Lessons de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Gentle is my touch... After I have roughed you up, And busted your gut. To reveal to the both of us... What can and can not be, Taken for granted. With that stage inviting us, To take that next step to test. And, Only then... Can we come to a..."></div> </div> </div>

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