<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446257" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wisened</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young! <br>And full of...<br>Adventure.<br>Unafraid to leave, <br>Boundaries made.<br>And perceived limits...<br>To conform within and respect.<br>With a reluctance to later regret! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That was left to those who, <br>Aged! <br>And I had of yet, <br>Become a slave to correctness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young! <br>And full of...<br>Ideas that dared.<br>Experimental, <br>Yes.<br>Argumentative, <br>Yes.<br>With a thoughtlessness, <br>Centered in selfishness.<br>I confess.<br>I was young but not devoid of consciousness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I make no excuses at all for this.<br>I AM blessed with life.<br>And I made a promise, <br>To explore every bit of it! <br>With a crawling if I had to.<br>But determined to do, <br>What for me I sought was right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes frightened in flight! <br>But never to stop...<br>To broaden my sight.<br>I wanted to know.<br>Not stay up 'wondering' all night! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young! <br>And full of...<br>Nonsense! <br>Then.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now reflective, <br>And full of...<br>The life I like.<br>Living the life I have lived, <br>To love! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is my life.<br>I made sure I didn't follow.<br>And obstacles faced..<br>I chipped away.<br>I've had my share, <br>Of wallowing in sorrows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With no wishes to do it, <br>Any differently.<br>OR make visits with delusions...<br>To have my thoughts redressed.<br>Or sympathized by time, <br>I let slip by.<br>To awaken one day with aches and pains.<br>With a reach in desire for a yesterday.<br>Today...<br>I will never regain to claim any, <br>Embellished exaggerations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can say these thoughts are all mine.<br>Whether in fine print, <br>Or in my mind documented.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they have been, <br>Wisened! <br>Whether the wine I drank, <br>Now drink or sipped...<br>Was fine or cheap.<br>These thoughts I keep...<br>Are all mine! <br>With such a savored flavor.</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=446257" data-title="Wisened de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Young! And full of... Adventure. Unafraid to leave, Boundaries made. And perceived limits... To conform within and respect. With a reluctance to later regret! That was left to those who, Aged! And I had of yet, Become a slave to correctness..."></div> </div> </div>

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