<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444535" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Preserve Delusions Kept</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am familiar with them changing the rules, <br>Each time I near the goal line.<br>And each time I near the goal line, <br>They are the ones finding themselves...<br>Closer to the edge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought I had been the only one, <br>To observe this mirage.<br>But apparently I'm not.<br>I am one of many participants, <br>Disbelieving but going along with it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I witness this with others, <br>Knowing from the very beginning...<br>Of a foolishness it is to want to be selective.<br>And when they stand at the edge, <br>Prepared to jump from it...<br>I wonder if defiance, evil and stubbornness, <br>To witness their own foolishness then...<br>Will be on their minds? <br>To define and validate for others, <br>What sickness is when pushed to its own limits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or...<br>Will they then be convinced, <br>One who feels confident...<br>Doesn't have to prove that to anyone, <br>If it is felt and known within a secured mind.<br>With a coming to grips, <br>The field played upon was created for everyone, <br>To enjoy for what it is and to share it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But...<br>Some want to be seen as champions.<br>Even if that means...<br>Leaping to their deaths to preserve delusions kept.</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=444535" data-title="To Preserve Delusions Kept de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I am familiar with them changing the rules, Each time I near the goal line. And each time I near the goal line, They are the ones finding themselves... Closer to the edge. I thought I had been the only one, To observe this mirage. But apparent..."></div> </div> </div>

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