<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441179" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prioritized And Lifted</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew too well, <br>What my life had been like.<br>And that loneliness no one could touch.<br>I was deeply mentally scarred and troubled.<br>Yes...<br>I had been there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew too well, <br>The masking of pretensions.<br>And the smothering of those emotions...<br>Afraid to let anyone see them show.<br>I have been there, <br>To numb them...<br>With alcohol or weed.<br>I have been there with a broken heart, <br>Many times to feel inside me bleeding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew too well, <br>What my life had been like.<br>And that loneliness no one could touch.<br>I was deeply mentally scarred and troubled.<br>I had been there.<br>And going back, <br>I don't intend to do.<br>To feel again pain is not one of my pursuits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not back to back to scrape my knees! <br>Naw.<br>I don't think so.<br>Even with knee pads...<br>That's not happenin'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being at a place that drains to remain there? <br>For purposes to have others see one unchanged...<br>Is a selfishness that provides for them comfort! <br>And I know that kind of environment too well! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had been there too.<br>Doing just that! <br>Providing others comfort at my expense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I provide my own comfort.<br>Which to me makes much more sense...<br>In the maintaining of my peace of mind and happiness.<br>And those who proclaim I have changed...<br>As if one's purpose in life is to remain the same, <br>Are right! <br>I decided my life had to be prioritized and lifted, <br>To the top of my list and agenda! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those who believe this is against God's wishes, <br>Have no connection to God! <br>I had been there myself...<br>To undo that kind of ignorance!</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=441179" data-title="Prioritized And Lifted de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I knew too well, What my life had been like. And that loneliness no one could touch. I was deeply mentally scarred and troubled. Yes... I had been there. I knew too well, The masking of pretensions. And the smothering of those emotions... Afrai..."></div> </div> </div>

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