<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437721" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In These Days and Times</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is easy to discredit<br>Those who have made names for themselves.<br>Despite the backbiting and the envy concealed by some.<br>Something childish we 'might' have all once done! <br>Than it is to maintain an ego...<br>Full of self and free of reflection, <br>To detect corrections an introspection makes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It takes a determined stamina...<br>Freed of grandeur and awe, <br>To administer an encouragement.<br>That is left behind to instill a nourishment! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If this message is not sent, <br>As it is meant to flourish those...<br>With less influence they can impose.<br>Then those who find their fame have no lasting value...<br>Have used their gifts for naught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And producing these deeds to feed such an ego, <br>Has not induced minds...<br>Needing to be fed enlightenment, <br>In these days and times! <br>A selfishness to hoard such talents and gifts...<br>Leave with the ones they came with.<br>And nothing of subsistence considered substance, <br>Can be passed to nurture that is left behind!</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=437721" data-title="In These Days and Times de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="It is easy to discredit Those who have made names for themselves. Despite the backbiting and the envy concealed by some. Something childish we 'might' have all once done! Than it is to maintain an ego... Full of self and free of reflection, To d..."></div> </div> </div>

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