<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442288" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sitting Seeking Pity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never will these wounds known that I carry, <br>Affect you directly.<br>When I earned my scars you were not involved.<br>Not to see them inflicted when I enlisted, <br>Into the military.<br>Not to hear of my friends being killed and buried.<br>Or the toil that took on my emotions.<br>I've already done the numbing of the mind thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were not there, <br>To see me grieve over the death of my son.<br>Or the pain I felt blaming myself and everyone, <br>Regarding how that was done.<br>Or when both of my marriages ended! <br>And I was then still quite young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All you know is what you see.<br>You have no idea what is inside of me.<br>Or the devotion I still have for my family.<br>After years now spent not seeing my mom and dad.<br>Very close those feelings you will not believe.<br>Or seeing them die that has left me sad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing I do has been magically produced.<br>Even forgiving myself and others, <br>Has reduced me to tears at times.<br>When I know of those folks who have sacrificed their lives, <br>For their beliefs.<br>As you wallow away in pettiness...<br>To complain about your issues.<br>And how from you they wont leave! <br>While you invite them on a daily basis.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you say of me for you I show no empathy? <br>You have no idea how much I care! <br>I am just not like you.<br>Sitting seeking pity.<br>Because my cries for help, <br>Is all I choose to do! <br>My knees are not intended, <br>To be bended and kept knelt! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Never will these wounds known that I carry, <br>Affect you directly.<br>I am too aware of those steps I've taken.<br>I am too aware of what it takes to celebrate life.<br>And too much aware of a happiness, <br>I have chosen to separate from what has happened.<br>Pulled out of despair and dragged away from strife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will listen! <br>But I am not here to compare to share to relive.<br>Any of your agonies on your sleeve you so willfully give.<br>I am here to assist your getting over it.<br>Not to sit with you and feast upon defeat.<br>I am not that kind of 'friend'.<br>And those friends you do not need.<br>So stop rehearsing your tragedies.<br>Let's take a hike through the park, <br>And hug a few trees.<br>Let's express to them our gratitude.</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=442288" data-title="Sitting Seeking Pity de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Never will these wounds known that I carry, Affect you directly. When I earned my scars you were not involved. Not to see them inflicted when I enlisted, Into the military. Not to hear of my friends being killed and buried. Or the toil that took..."></div> </div> </div>

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