<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=439567" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Naïveté</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can understand why some people are perceived as naïve.<br>I once believed everything I was told.<br>Never thinking anyone would have something up their sleeve.<br>Or be as cold, <br>To make attempts to deceive.<br>Or be as bold.<br>But did if they could! <br>Making me distrust...<br>When as a child as I grew up, <br>In my neighborhood.<br>Trying to be 'good' with a lingering innocence.<br>But feeling duped and stupid.<br>With a naked sense of vulnerability.<br>And doing my best...<br>To keep that and my curiosity protected.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was an unusual child! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those were the rough years.<br>When people said anything to impressionable kids! <br>And I did my best to try to tell the difference.<br>I tried to keep my awareness hidden...<br>By the silly things I often did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those times today...<br>Don't seem that far away.<br>And still there are people who dupe others.<br>Either to get under someone's sheets...<br>Or lie sweetly to get something wished as a treat! <br>And not being discreet about these transgressions at all! <br>Playing on the minds of those known to show kindness.<br>And caring less how they get what they get when they get it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in the end...<br>Their failures come to light! <br>Becoming the ones stunned...<br>When their lives come crashing to a fall! <br>Becoming the ones proving they too can look dumb! <br>And reacting with naïveté...<br>When they are the ones passed, <br>By others observing them as they crawl! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It just appears as something natural that they do! <br>Who knew...<br>They just enjoyed the screwing done? <br>And not getting it in return too? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Do unto others, <br>As you would have them do unto you.'<br>Isn't that 'old' saying said yesterday...<br>As good today and just as true? <br>But I must admit, <br>They do look out of place.<br>Looking pitiful as they do the 'boo hoo'.</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=439567" data-title="Naïveté de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I can understand why some people are perceived as naïve. I once believed everything I was told. Never thinking anyone would have something up their sleeve. Or be as cold, To make attempts to deceive. Or be as bold. But did if they could! Making..."></div> </div> </div>

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