<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446223" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wide and Unapologetically Grounded</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All their lives, <br>They had spent in the pursuit of things.<br>Things they were told would bring to them happiness...<br>And status! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Attend they did prestigious schools.<br>To enhance a pretentiousness invested.<br>Just to prove...<br>They could have the best, <br>Of what a selfishness in greed could buy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some took their pride to stride about proudly, <br>With titles.<br>Invited to hide and disfigure any insecurities.<br>And they had them to mask! <br>These tasks were assisted in their smotherings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This increased their worthiness.<br>With affectations intact...<br>And attached to snobbiness.<br>Until one day...<br>Their plastic existences lost support! <br>Beginning to drift away.<br>An abortion of fantasies, <br>Had caught them off guard.<br>And nothing they obtained, <br>Brought with it such stinging pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shallowness hidden, <br>They could no longer maintain.<br>It brought their sorrows to deepen.<br>And showed them to be shallow, <br>Even in their shame...<br>They claimed and bartered dignities.<br>As if this would keep them from looking foolish! <br>A look they had no idea, <br>Had long not been sought to reflect honesty.<br>Or a depth of thought imagined, <br>That could or would exist in these minds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank You Father...<br>For opening my eyes, <br>Wide and unapologetically grounded.</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=446223" data-title="Wide and Unapologetically Grounded de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="All their lives, They had spent in the pursuit of things. Things they were told would bring to them happiness... And status! Attend they did prestigious schools. To enhance a pretentiousness invested. Just to prove... They could have the best, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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