<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445796" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I First Lost My Impatience</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I felt dirty and betrayed, <br>When I first lost my impatience.<br>I felt...<br>Used and so unclean.<br>I knew I had been stripped, <br>Of an innocence I would never have again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be vicious, cruel and mean...<br>Was all I saw and knew, <br>As a child growing up...<br>To be exposed to seeing these scenes.<br>People were being cussed out and talked about, <br>For not sharing their potato chips! Seriously.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't know exactly why, <br>My impatience had been taken away...<br>In the manner it was done.<br>But I grew to understand there was a purpose.<br>And even if I shared all my chips...<br>I can always buy another bag. I learned! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today I have discovered, <br>I have more patience than I have ever had.<br>And some who have come to test me...<br>Are surprised I am not so quick, <br>To give them a taste of impatience.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have found a life I am determined to live.<br>One with a peace of mind...<br>And freed from 'identified' evil people.<br>Patience taught me how to observe first, <br>With my mouth closed and ears open to listen.</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=445796" data-title="When I First Lost My Impatience de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="I felt dirty and betrayed, When I first lost my impatience. I felt... Used and so unclean. I knew I had been stripped, Of an innocence I would never have again. To be vicious, cruel and mean... Was all I saw and knew, As a child growing up... ..."></div> </div> </div>

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