<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444427" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Broaden My Perceptions</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't recall my hand being held by anyone, <br>To make me feel safe and protected.<br>In fact I was made to feel I was in the way...<br>If it wasn't demanded that I'd take out the garbage, <br>Or carry ten gallon cans of oil to 'fetch'...<br>To heat the oil burners in a home I left, <br>When I was eighteen years old.<br>I even gave myself birthday parties.<br>And 'pretended' my parents attended, <br>Any of my school graduations.<br>Even though they didn't.<br>But that didn't stop my love for them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To then be accused, <br>I was abandoning 'my' responsibilities.<br>When I declared I had 'had' it! <br>I was the oldest child.<br>Not anybody's father.<br>I had already grown older and wiser beyond my years.<br>To know what being abandoned meant.<br>I just got tired of being used.<br>So I left to let the military do that! <br>And glad I did to broaden my perceptions.</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=444427" data-title="To Broaden My Perceptions de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I don't recall my hand being held by anyone, To make me feel safe and protected. In fact I was made to feel I was in the way... If it wasn't demanded that I'd take out the garbage, Or carry ten gallon cans of oil to 'fetch'... To heat the oil bu..."></div> </div> </div>

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