<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441546" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Refusing Then To Listen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were those selected and chosen, <br>To represent their causes.<br>With a reflecting of their priorities, <br>And interests kept protected.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were those denied, <br>And deemed not qualified.<br>Although they produced credentials, <br>To prove their experiences were essential.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today those denied, <br>And deemed yesterday not qualified...<br>Are discovered to have experiences, <br>That should have never been dismissed.<br>But time does not allow to have those yesterdays, <br>Replaced with a catching up to date.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, <br>What could have been of benefit and useful to them, <br>Those refusing then to listen...<br>Would have been paths freed of debris with clarity.<br>But a patience gone from those dismissed...<br>Has been distanced from the ones, <br>Caught up in lives lived in chaos and conflicts.</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=441546" data-title="Refusing Then To Listen de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="There were those selected and chosen, To represent their causes. With a reflecting of their priorities, And interests kept protected. There were those denied, And deemed not qualified. Although they produced credentials, To prove their experi..."></div> </div> </div>

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