<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440612" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Openly Critiqued</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For most of my life, <br>I have paid my own dues.<br>And collected bruises, <br>With installments to pay...<br>Along the way.<br>This is not hypothetical or myth! <br>I have kept receipts, <br>To show and prove what I've done to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And for anyone to believe, <br>They could have easily walked in my shoes...<br>I have not been in hiding anywhere, <br>To have that done for them to wear.<br>But somehow, <br>The daring for them to do it...<br>Would open the door for more of their excuses.<br>And having a fear of being openly critiqued they refuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is much easier to pretend we can be someone else, <br>Than to actually be that one else who is not pretentious.</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=440612" data-title="Openly Critiqued de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="For most of my life, I have paid my own dues. And collected bruises, With installments to pay... Along the way. This is not hypothetical or myth! I have kept receipts, To show and prove what I've done to do. And for anyone to believe, They c..."></div> </div> </div>

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