<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440465" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Does Not Grow Without A Knowing Done</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've been made to distrust.<br>To protect and not cuddle up.<br>My approach is to first offend, <br>Then to take notice...<br>Who understands, <br>That wall from behind...<br>I have chosen to defend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not easy to have an identity, <br>Some may believe...<br>Is an ego to please.<br>I've given up proceeding with an ego, <br>Long ago.<br>To me an ego shows, <br>One who hasn't or refuses to grow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've been made to distrust.<br>To protect and not cuddle up.<br>From experiences I've had...<br>By those who stripped me of trust.<br>And today I am not willing, <br>To do 'that' so fast! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So 'if' I seem distant, <br>Uncaring and unconcerned.<br>Know that I've been in the 'heat'...<br>And staying away from being burned, <br>Is a lesson I have learned.<br>One does not grow without a knowing, <br>Done of what one learns not to do!</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=440465" data-title="One Does Not Grow Without A Knowing Done de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I've been made to distrust. To protect and not cuddle up. My approach is to first offend, Then to take notice... Who understands, That wall from behind... I have chosen to defend. It is not easy to have an identity, Some may believe... Is an e..."></div> </div> </div>

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