<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Preferred As Protective Devices</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In unfortunate ways these days, <br>People are allowed to betray themselves.<br>And with validation...<br>From those they declare as friends.<br>With a shallowness sought and received from them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today few have close friends.<br>Too many are accustomed to dishonesty.<br>And truth is disbelieved.<br>Even some find the mention of it offends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delusions are preferred as protective devices.<br>And when visions becomes blurred, <br>People seek actively deception as advice.<br>Only to complain to others what they've heard...<br>About their depressed and troubled lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaving that wide of a gap in their minds.<br>And finding it convenient to wallow away in grief.</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=441135" data-title="Preferred As Protective Devices de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="In unfortunate ways these days, People are allowed to betray themselves. And with validation... From those they declare as friends. With a shallowness sought and received from them. Today few have close friends. Too many are accustomed to dishon..."></div> </div> </div>

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