<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445865" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When That Door Closes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Were you upset, <br>By those who took you and your efforts for granted...<br>In the past? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yes.<br>And I have taken measures, <br>To ensure that 'never' happens again.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Never' is a strong and sometimes changing word.<br>Perhaps you mean you 'hope' this to you, <br>Will not happen again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I've identified my attachment to those who 'try'.<br>And those who 'try' are proned to make excuses, <br>Induced by alibis! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well...<br>I no longer empathize with procrastinators, <br>Who abuse my empathy.<br>And do what they wish to do later.<br>As if it's okay to do that to me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I recognized who they are.<br>And that's all it takes...<br>For me not to experience another heartache.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You speak of this as if it is the ending of a relationship.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It is! <br>When the passion leaves...<br>Why wish for it to return and be repeated? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When it is clear it has gone, <br>And there is no coming back? <br>Never can those feelings be restored as they were.<br>Like an exit through an opened door, <br>When one closes it little emotion is attached.<br>With a forward movement that takes place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not to close it to knock on it again! <br>What sense does that make? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You might have left something inside? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You mean like a pride one denies? <br>Not here.<br>When that door closes...<br>It is as if it had not existed.'</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=445865" data-title="When That Door Closes de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Were you upset, By those who took you and your efforts for granted... In the past? 'Yes. And I have taken measures, To ensure that 'never' happens again.' 'Never' is a strong and sometimes changing word. Perhaps you mean you 'hope' this to yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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