<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=441830" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rumors, Conflicts and Constant Gossip</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know your family has questions, <br>About me and our relationship.<br>And exactly what it is I do.<br>With a persistence to see us, <br>Eventually split! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But please inform them, <br>Before my impatience slips.<br>That the slut they believe I am, <br>Is not me...<br>But 'had' been you.<br>Before we met.<br>And honestly expressed, <br>Each of our past regrets! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am no angel, <br>By no means do I have wings.<br>And I never pretended to fly, <br>To disguise my flaws with alibis...<br>Or compromise the truth I found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However...<br>If they continue to ride on high horses...<br>As if manure that smells does not stink.<br>Tell them, yes<br>I might have been divorced before.<br>But I wasn't the one, <br>To teach you to be a whore.<br>You and I have discussed our blemishes.<br>And we needn't do that to open old sores.<br>And I was worse than you.<br>I was thisclose to prostitution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And 'anything' they've ever said 'I DO' to...<br>Was to stay busy in our business, <br>Probably others too! <br>And we have chosen that to ignore! <br>That's why I prefer to have them, <br>Not around us anymore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now...<br>Should I relate this? <br>Since our past mistakes, <br>We've already dismissed.<br>Or is it with me, <br>You want to keep this...<br>Our private relationship? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We did not come together, <br>To smear ourselves with their constant...<br>Nonsense! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm not revisiting our past failures.<br>Or joining in to share their conflicts.<br>So they can decide, <br>What we have discovered...<br>It will be left up to them to ruin quick.<br>That kind of sickness, <br>I can identify and not putting up with! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now...<br>Should I relate this? <br>Or is it with me, <br>You want to keep this...<br>Our private relationship? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it with me we've agreed there is a happiness? <br>Or is it your family you wish to please...<br>Knowing what 'they' share together, <br>Are rumors, conflicts and constant gossip! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they talk and speak about 'unity'? <br>Please! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should I relate this? <br>I can be very protective, <br>When it comes to peace of mind...<br>And my own happiness in a relationship.</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=441830" data-title="Rumors, Conflicts and Constant Gossip de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I know your family has questions, About me and our relationship. And exactly what it is I do. With a persistence to see us, Eventually split! But please inform them, Before my impatience slips. That the slut they believe I am, Is not me... B..."></div> </div> </div>

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