<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438814" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Like an Unused Expletive</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When folks stop showing they care, <br>With expected responses<br>Others had grown accustomed, <br>To be shown reliably there.<br>And it has gone? <br>Something has turned around, <br>Something has gone wrong! <br>To expose a cold shoulder...<br>Never before thought could be found! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a familiar ride on a merry-go-round.<br>It may be there to provide a service.<br>Like an unused expletive! <br>Someone has chosen not to dignify, <br>To sting the atmosphere.<br>Or believe would satisfy a benefit, <br>To anyone overhearing it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And with those warnings tossed aside, <br>An explanation tried in the past...<br>Dies.<br>A purpose seems to have come to a close.<br>With an attempt to save a repeated waste of time.<br>To halt before the repetition begins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What is being accomplished? <br>And for whose understanding...<br>Should I appear to be the idiot? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Someone involved has taken another for granted.<br>And like an 'ex' of anything experienced...<br>An ax has been used to sever a close tie abused! <br>A determination has been made, <br>To move on! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Demonstrating...<br>A decay that has become addicting to some, <br>For one...<br>Who has had enough of that 'funky' stuff... <br>That is the one, <br>Who no longer has to tolerate a self infliction of BS.<br>It stinks and reeks.<br>And it can be removed.</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=438814" data-title="Like an Unused Expletive de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="When folks stop showing they care, With expected responses Others had grown accustomed, To be shown reliably there. And it has gone? Something has turned around, Something has gone wrong! To expose a cold shoulder... Never before thought coul..."></div> </div> </div>

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