<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Left to Puff Up to Float</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some folks live, <br>To stay where they are.<br>Embracing their yesterdays...<br>To add their versions that ignites, <br>An excited wish...<br>To have those days relived, <br>As they are told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'how-things-use-to-be' folks...<br>Swatting away flies from their molded stories.<br>From a stoop or a porch...<br>Or from a corner that is now paved, <br>Where they once played upon a dusty road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There they stand proud and in the way, <br>Of someone on the move.<br>Someone passing through! <br>As they evaluate each step placed they take! <br>Discussing amongst themselves...<br>Whether or not they should approve.<br>And 'who' thinks they are, <br>Better than 'who'! <br>As they become distant from those...<br>Who have chosen to stay, <br>With their minds in times frozen and closed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Recruiting young ones, <br>Impressed with their stagnation.<br>Those of similar kind and like minds, <br>Groomed to complain and whine...<br>About the current times they find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listening to embellished beliefs.<br>Leaving few taught, <br>That they should reach...<br>For their aspirations and dreams, <br>To become implanted.<br>For a flourishing tomorrow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as sorrows are shared...<br>A tomorrow for them, <br>Has yet to occur.<br>For them this awareness, <br>Has been for them intentionally blurred! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or even the notion to live...<br>And be in the 'now' to stir a motivation! <br>But this implementation, <br>Is not a seed sown to harvest...<br>In minds fed on killer weeds! <br>Passed and expected, <br>To be received.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so they too...<br>Are left to puff up to float, <br>Like the others! <br>To exclaim with their druthers...<br>How 'good' the stuff to them they get! <br>Just like 'how-things-use-to-be'...<br>Yesterday and those days before!</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=438649" data-title="Left to Puff Up to Float de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Some folks live, To stay where they are. Embracing their yesterdays... To add their versions that ignites, An excited wish... To have those days relived, As they are told. The 'how-things-use-to-be' folks... Swatting away flies from their mold..."></div> </div> </div>

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