<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=444701" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Too Late to Compensate For It</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vanity suffers missed opportunities.<br>It can be compared to one's preference to plastic.<br>When crystal is available! <br>But being aware of it may not be known.<br>A pretense of it is shown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even children rarely pay attention to substitutes.<br>And they rebel the enforcement of it.<br>Once a truth is nibbled...<br>More is sought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The information may be there.<br>But the presence of it...<br>Seems to be delivered in uncertainty.<br>And efforts to shove something of value, <br>Down folks' throats...<br>Provokes public scenes.<br>A falseness is immediately depicted.<br>And a control is lost! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ignorance is not bliss.<br>That rumor should have never been allowed to spread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When unattended discipline is blown out of proportion...<br>Expect chaos.<br>It has already been baited to arrive.<br>But many in denial are dieting on delusion.<br>Believing a reality can be sweetened to a preferred taste.<br>Research occurs.<br>And statistics are gathered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be vain represents a 'missingness' of something.<br>If something out of the ordinary is viewed as unusual...<br>And this screams out for help but goes ignored? <br>With an intention that escalates? <br>Like a selfishness that stares in one's face? <br>And more of it goes out of its way to be fed? <br>With it seen everywhere as a valued standard? <br>Trouble is not too far behind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fact for many it has already climbed over the fence.<br>Attacking those defenseless.<br>With hopes to protect themselves, <br>With the same tired excuses! <br>And self examinations become offensive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And from the core of its beginning...<br>Truth and the reality of it, <br>Has been so misunderstood, <br>For what it really is.<br>And too late to compensate for it! <br>Or debate it to further irritate those irate.</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=444701" data-title="Too Late to Compensate For It de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Vanity suffers missed opportunities. It can be compared to one's preference to plastic. When crystal is available! But being aware of it may not be known. A pretense of it is shown. Even children rarely pay attention to substitutes. And they reb..."></div> </div> </div>

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