<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=439466" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Cheeks Do Not Turn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Returning back what I get, <br>Seems to offend the ones...<br>Who possess selective memories kept, <br>In their archives of thoughtless actions.<br>To conveniently forget as is often done, <br>By those who have a knack...<br>To excuse everything they do, <br>On the dysfunctions of their childhood.<br>And this 'defect' is fed to THEIR children, <br>To accept as a custom as a family heirloom given.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You do me...<br>You will get done! <br>That's it! <br>I apologize for the detour.<br>But that's how it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And always there is a parent to blame, <br>Who either smothered them with strictness...<br>Or did not supply them with enough love.<br>However, <br>My empathy given does not extend to include...<br>Forgiveness to anyone wishing to use me, <br>To later express a pathetic childhood lived.<br>I don't carry around a box of tissue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Detour number two...<br>I am into Brahms and Beethoven.<br>And a little Mozart.<br>But sobbing tears with strings, <br>To crescendo gradually in the background...<br>As one attempts to defend what they've done? <br>No! <br>I am not a part of that audience.<br>Especially when one has aged with maturity OR not, <br>To be held accountable for those misdeeds...<br>Consciously done to others to do to forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You do me...<br>You will get done! <br>That's it! <br>My cheeks do not turn.<br>But I am told I walk with a switch, <br>By those who mistake my proudness for something else.<br>And I don't spend time looking at myself from behind.<br>Even if I could do it I wouldn't.<br>My footsteps and eyes are focused forward.<br>Obviously some have their eyes fixed elsewhere.</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=439466" data-title="My Cheeks Do Not Turn de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Returning back what I get, Seems to offend the ones... Who possess selective memories kept, In their archives of thoughtless actions. To conveniently forget as is often done, By those who have a knack... To excuse everything they do, On the dy..."></div> </div> </div>

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