<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Leave a Rotting Rut</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I alone allowed...<br>My failures to speak for me out loud.<br>And would ask and get advice, <br>Whenever I felt enticed by gloom! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I gave them room to display defeat.<br>With a hollowness inside that creeped.<br>As I peeked at success that shied away, <br>And stared...<br>From a distance it often teased and glared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I began tripping and slipping on my own faults.<br>Opening wounds...<br>To pour my own salt! <br>Then it became too clear, <br>I was the one I feared.<br> <br>I was the one creating my own glum! <br>Stumbling in suffering habits, <br>And quick to accuse everyone of being 'dumb'! <br>I kept myself entwined...<br>Addicted to my own whines! <br>Until I kicked myself in the butt, <br>To leave a rotting rut...<br>And limitation behind! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I am fine! ' I say! <br>Today I say...'I'm okay! I'm fine! '</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=444510" data-title="To Leave a Rotting Rut de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I alone allowed... My failures to speak for me out loud. And would ask and get advice, Whenever I felt enticed by gloom! I gave them room to display defeat. With a hollowness inside that creeped. As I peeked at success that shied away, And sta..."></div> </div> </div>

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