<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438878" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Listening With Intent Meant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am 'still' that same person.<br>Calm in demeanor.<br>Protective with reflective respect.<br>Focused and attentive.<br>With no beating around the bush, <br>From me does anyone get.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Honest to a fault.<br>And sometimes naïve I can be! <br>However, <br>I am 'there'...<br>Giving! <br>And listening with intent meant.<br>With an empathy felt, <br>And no holding onto a silent resentment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And 'you'...<br>Thinking me as someone easy to use, <br>Believed me to be...<br>One of many, <br>Massed produced commodities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The years I've lived only made me wiser...<br>And much more alert.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I flirt with possibilities? <br>No.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can I walk backward and do flip flops? <br>If I so desired I could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But there is no one on the horizon...<br>Or near the detection of my radar, <br>I would consider jumping through hoops.<br>Remember...<br>I once did that for you.<br>Whipped and willingly trained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But somehow you ended up playing the fool.<br>And fools pollute the air.<br>I can't be around them.<br>I have allergies!</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=438878" data-title="Listening With Intent Meant de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am 'still' that same person. Calm in demeanor. Protective with reflective respect. Focused and attentive. With no beating around the bush, From me does anyone get. Honest to a fault. And sometimes naïve I can be! However, I am 'there'... Gi..."></div> </div> </div>

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