<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446729" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Became Those 'Things</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You became those 'things'.<br>Your car, your jewelry...<br>Watches and diamond rings.<br>The shoes and suits.<br>Shirts and ties.<br>The dinner parties you hosted.<br>With those hors d'oeuvres you insisted...<br>I would love if I tried! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You became those 'things'.<br>With such a credibility! <br>But when you lost them...<br>Something I saw died within you.<br>And the family you knew, <br>Saw that too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">None of us who witnessed it...<br>Recognized you at all! <br>Did you believe when those 'things' left...<br>You could restore your emptiness, <br>By pretending to be someone else? <br>That everyone would accept? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You became those 'things'! <br>And you expected us to accept nothing less.<br>Now you suggest we respect that.<br>But you invested your happiness in things.<br>And you neglected life! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You became those 'thing's you chose to be.<br>What makes you believe...<br>Now those things are gone, <br>You can be someone that is liked? <br>Without those things you seem to have no life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And 'that' you chose to ignore.<br>Without them you seem such a bore! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You became those 'things'! <br>What are you now good for? <br>A useless nothingness? <br>You had said of me...<br>And your family.<br>And those who then had less!</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=446729" data-title="You Became Those 'Things de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="You became those 'things'. Your car, your jewelry... Watches and diamond rings. The shoes and suits. Shirts and ties. The dinner parties you hosted. With those hors d'oeuvres you insisted... I would love if I tried! You became those 'things'. Wi..."></div> </div> </div>

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