<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442205" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shunned to Slander Those Wholesome</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shunned to slander those wholesome, <br>They did.<br>In protection of their standards.<br>In the hopes they would be long lived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good people they ruined...<br>In belief their quality of life was attacked, <br>By those who spoke with honesty! <br>To reveal to them a truth with facts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh...<br>The people did not like that.<br>Especially those self righteous.<br>They vowed to keep their 'ways' intact.<br>And they campaigned against, <br>Those who abhorred them.<br>So those opposing...<br>Received cold shoulders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Foolish now they feel.<br>Those who threw their noses up...<br>With such exuberant zest, <br>Thought to appeal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although now victims of their own ignorance, <br>They wish a forgiveness released will heal! <br>But those who spoke truth, <br>With a desire to save them...<br>From uncouth sleuths! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Freed from the wicked! <br>And choosing not to sacrifice their peace of mind.<br>Since doing that to retrack a past...<br>Could not mend a trashing meant to last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Living in the 'now' with truth...<br>Had been pursued with others to share.<br>But too many then had valued their pretensions.<br>And their eyes now reveal...<br>A longing to erase their despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a hunger someone approaches.<br>To offer them empathy.<br>And excuse their indignities shown! <br>But who can believe those fed to greed? <br>Or the depths of their embedded deceit...<br>Too well dispensed.<br>And too well known!</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=442205" data-title="Shunned to Slander Those Wholesome de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Shunned to slander those wholesome, They did. In protection of their standards. In the hopes they would be long lived. Good people they ruined... In belief their quality of life was attacked, By those who spoke with honesty! To reveal to them ..."></div> </div> </div>

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