<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441198" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Proclaiming Preferences</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feeling a bit threatened, <br>By those proclaiming preferences? <br>Only to then become offended, <br>When you have been omitted...<br>From being a preference one admits.<br>How traumatic? <br>And why is this? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One at first feeling threatened, <br>Should now feel relieved.<br>But noooo! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They decide they would like, <br>To taunt those proclaiming them.<br>Especially if those preferences, <br>Has anything to do with sex.<br>And those choices that have been expressed...<br>Does not include them as addressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was only when those preferences were announced, <br>Did those previously minding their own business...<br>Went about doing what they normally would do.<br>Snooping between gossip hops.<br>With an attempt to acquire details...<br>About who does what with what they've got.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then one day those with preferences, <br>Unlocked their doors and came out of closets.<br>And caring less who passed judgement on them.<br>They sought a happiness.<br>From lifestyles that had one time or another, <br>Had them feel both closed and trapped in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now today...<br>Those with old gossip, <br>Have nothing to say.<br>If fact they seem embittered...<br>To stay in relationships, <br>Daring to admit...<br>Their own activities, <br>Have long skipped over...<br>And beyond a 'curiousness'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What's the matter? <br>You look upset.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~That 'misfit' told me, <br>I was not desirable...<br>On a kept preference list.<br>Can you believe this? <br>And I 'know' I am desirable...<br>IF I decided to choose to be! <br>And IF I wanted to be selected and picked.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Selected and picked? <br>For what? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~You know.<br>For 'whatever' it is...<br>Those two over there are doing.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What are they doing? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~You can not see what they are doing? <br>Look at them...<br>Closely.<br>And how they are looking at each other, <br>With 'those'...eyes.<br>And...<br>Out in public.<br>I am highly offended AND appalled.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What are you talking about? '</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=441198" data-title="Proclaiming Preferences de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Feeling a bit threatened, By those proclaiming preferences? Only to then become offended, When you have been omitted... From being a preference one admits. How traumatic? And why is this? One at first feeling threatened, Should now feel rel..."></div> </div> </div>

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