<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438827" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Like Never Before</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I get to be who it is I am...<br>After digesting suggestions, <br>And recommendations<br>I protested.<br>With a racing mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I found my direction scattered.<br>My time alone shattered, <br>By thoughts of others<br>That grew as I became too full<br>Of 'who' said 'what' and 'how'<br>I should best approach my destiny! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finding myself on my hands and knees...<br>Searching through doubts, <br>Held me enslaved in dismay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I get to be who I am today...<br>And when I 'arrived' <br>As the drifting 'pieces'<br>Began to click and snap into place, <br>I could not believe the recognition I received! <br>With clarity and acceptance in attendance.<br>I embraced myself with the kind of joy, <br>I thought was not allowed.<br>I once buckled and bowed to disbelief! <br>Upon an appearance of relief that came to show! <br>I had used my tools to seal my grief, <br>Then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stunned by lack of self defense...<br>How quickly I discovered to shut my mouth.<br>Stepping over traps laid by naysayers, <br>Scouting to recruit weakness to smother quick...<br>With sympathy I had not reached to seek, <br>Nor expect with ambush.<br>And let my heart speak to me...<br>I did, <br>Like never 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=438827" data-title="Like Never Before de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I get to be who it is I am... After digesting suggestions, And recommendations I protested. With a racing mind. I found my direction scattered. My time alone shattered, By thoughts of others That grew as I became too full Of 'who' said 'what' a..."></div> </div> </div>

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