<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441468" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reality Fatalities</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bitter is the truth, <br>Coming to some to stun.<br>And in these awakening days now lived...<br>None of it is partial. <br>A totalness of it is addressed, <br>As it relentlessly gives...<br>Heartbreak and emptiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And tempers everywhere, <br>Are there and flaring.<br>Truth is not to be dared! <br>Its affects are bold.<br>Leaving folks beholding it...<br>In blank and helpless stares.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unbridled are horses and other pets.<br>Showpiece collections...<br>Being stripped away, <br>With tears and regrets! <br>Like the sudden departure of anything, <br>Or anyone loved...<br>That leaves behind a grieving, <br>And much unhappiness that is left.<br>To feel without an accepting...<br>Like the ease of a breathing breath.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These reality fatalities, <br>Meeting a squeezing done.<br>By a faltering of an economy...<br>Dwindling from a greed, <br>Excitedly greeted and once welcomed.<br>Now gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swept across a land of those who once believed, <br>Their quality of life was set and sacred.<br>Untouched but now discovered...<br>Is a bleeding felt that succeeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They can not recover, <br>From lifestyles lived beyond their means.<br>When the certainty of truth...<br>Brings with it a stinging done.<br>And demeaning with a death, <br>Of all delusions that have been kept! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These reality fatalities, <br>Meeting a squeezing done.<br>By a faltering of an economy...<br>Dwindling from a greed, <br>Excitedly greeted and once welcomed.<br>Like the drifting away of leaves, <br>From barren trees.<br>Never to reproduce the joys...<br>And those temptations that seduced, <br>A feeding fed that has run out of its 'juice'.</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=441468" data-title="Reality Fatalities de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Bitter is the truth, Coming to some to stun. And in these awakening days now lived... None of it is partial. A totalness of it is addressed, As it relentlessly gives... Heartbreak and emptiness. And tempers everywhere, Are there and flaring. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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