<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442685" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Spinning Out of Control</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be part of a collective whole<br>Does not diminish the value, <br>If kept polished and acknowledged! <br>However...<br>If that piece increases to become ignored, <br>And perceived as not as important...<br>Forgotten to rot.<br>No longer adored.<br>The quality of the whole also loses, <br>As its stature and influence tilts<br>From a constant abuse, <br>Willed upon it.<br>And a prominence once gained, <br>Begins to show...<br>A detrimental change! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An 'arrangement' is damaged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unattended greatness, <br>Can not itself sustain.<br>With bits and pieces chipped away...<br>Unrecognized for its need to be nourished, <br>Constantly in conscious ways! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A pride falters and shallows in purpose.<br>Everything then begins to taint...<br>To oxizidize and rust! <br>Everything that did not contribute...<br>To the purity of its breath, <br>Becomes distrusted.<br>And beings to die, <br>A slow death from a life given to cherish.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the whole that was, <br>Is no longer what it could have been! <br>Spinning out of control...<br>Until it fades, <br>And dust is all that remains to scatter.<br>Lost from its majestic magnetic hold!</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=442685" data-title="Spinning Out of Control de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="To be part of a collective whole Does not diminish the value, If kept polished and acknowledged! However... If that piece increases to become ignored, And perceived as not as important... Forgotten to rot. No longer adored. The quality of the w..."></div> </div> </div>

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