<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440220" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Observed But Unbelieved</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are taught...<br>A way of life is only acceptable, <br>If it is lived from our point of view! <br>Although our values are flawed, <br>And we are awed by conflict.<br>...with a touch of war and self-obsession.<br>Our abilities to reflect, <br>How we expect to be treated...<br>Falls short of our actions, <br>Observed but unbelieved! <br>Hypocrisies are a given...<br>As empathy is shown, <br>In many charitable ways! <br>And this we insist to be, <br>A factor well known! <br>Grace upon the arrival of each day.<br>And blessed we are, <br>To inflict this advantage! <br>However...<br>There is a self-righteousness, <br>In the standards we embrace.<br>And we are unable to face, <br>A divisiveness that splits and stays! <br>Although a wholesomeness about it, <br>Is daily portrayed as we employ our joys...<br>By a propaganda marketed without delay! <br>With the best of subliminal injections.<br>Leaving nonconformists much annoyed! <br>And this we insist is diplomacy, <br>If understood...<br>How it could and should be convinced, <br>In movements actually lived!</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=440220" data-title="Observed But Unbelieved de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="We are taught... A way of life is only acceptable, If it is lived from our point of view! Although our values are flawed, And we are awed by conflict. ...with a touch of war and self-obsession. Our abilities to reflect, How we expect to be tre..."></div> </div> </div>

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