<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=440750" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Own World</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come here, <br>Quick! <br>We're hoping you can help us, <br>Make some sense of this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are diehard conformists.<br>To that we admit.<br>And those we chose to ridicule...<br>Had been the ones we selected, <br>As 'do-nothing' mavericks.<br>Shouldn't we have been the ones, <br>To have prospered? <br>To benefit from our loyalty.<br>The ones to make the gains...<br>With lifestyles to benefit? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fact...<br>They had been those we ostracized.<br>And we made sure of it! <br>Now they appear to have profited...<br>From anti-social behavior, <br>That declared them lunatics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come here, <br>Quick! <br>Do you have an explanation, <br>For any of this? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well, <br>As an observer...<br>I can only offer this quip.<br>It seems those who chose to live free, <br>Of restrictions...<br>Are happier they did and did not quit.<br>Regardless of who thought what of them.<br>Or who passed judgement on their 'craziness'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They do not seem to be complaining at all, <br>About an economic crisis...<br>That has marched the rest of you, <br>To the edge of an abyss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here you are filled with anger.<br>The ones gritting your teeth.<br>And spitting expletives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You stand in a group...<br>Shouting in fits.<br>Cursing others loudly.<br>And with clenched fists! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shouldn't that be the actions of those you claim...<br>To have been the ones isolated and brought to shame? <br>Didn't you say, <br>You all had gone out of your way...<br>To smear their reputations and ruin their names? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yeah, <br>But...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I thank God I do not live in this neighborhood! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where do you live? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I've been told I live in my own world years ago.<br>And I am so glad I decided to make it comfortable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank you for asking for my opinion.<br>I thought I had been totally ignored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You don't mind if I leave, <br>And take my peace of mind with me? <br>I've had it for so long...<br>Your question caught me off guard! '</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=440750" data-title="Own World de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Come here, Quick! We're hoping you can help us, Make some sense of this. We are diehard conformists. To that we admit. And those we chose to ridicule... Had been the ones we selected, As 'do-nothing' mavericks. Shouldn't we have been the ones..."></div> </div> </div>

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