<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Interpretations of Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many are finding it easier, <br>To substitute any reality...<br>For quick trips away, <br>To escape from their own<br>Interpretations of life! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shameless feeding of fantasy...<br>Has many people demanding more police, <br>To protect them from a way of life...<br>They have allowed and wished upon themselves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wished to see themselves better 'than'.<br>So throughout their history, <br>They took from others...<br>And declared them enemies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They stripped them of their resources, <br>To claim stolen goods as their 'interests'.<br>They created their own isolation.<br>And in celebration...<br>This ignorance was praised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Insecurity has increasingly...<br>Diminished them into dependency.<br>And a decadence lived, <br>Can not hide the blight or stop those frightened...<br>From what now all can see, <br>Is a quality of life purely based upon deceit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many are finding it easier, <br>To substitute any reality...<br>For quick trips away, <br>To escape from their own<br>Interpretations of life! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they wish to love what they feel is right.<br>But how can this be done? <br>When all that has been happening, <br>Has been condoned, <br>By an addiction to restrict reality.<br>And the price paid to keep that hushed...<br>Is indebted to those, <br>Who 'allow' them to borrow funds...<br>To keep thoughts of greatness alive! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how can a people thrive on the idea of greatness? <br>Simple.<br>Standards are lowered.<br>Mediocrity is praised.<br>Availability is cheapened.<br>And those demanding quality...<br>Are taught to be ignored.<br>With a disrespect that comes accepted.<br>Until it breeds an arrogance.<br>With a depiction of lost independence.<br>And a conformity controlled, <br>By anything that is told!</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=437885" data-title="Interpretations of Life de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Many are finding it easier, To substitute any reality... For quick trips away, To escape from their own Interpretations of life! A shameless feeding of fantasy... Has many people demanding more police, To protect them from a way of life... Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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