That you find the choices I've made, <br />To accept, reject or attempt to resist... <br />And the ones I chose appalling? <br />Remember this... <br />My choices in life to make 'and' made, <br />Were real and not faked... <br />To later afford me an exit to escape. <br /> <br />And if they should appall you, <br />There is no need for you to persist... <br />As if to insist. <br />Why continue to announce it? <br /> <br />Just remember this... <br />My decisions made were not out of view! <br />And yours? Were they hidden? <br />With hopes to have time later erase... <br />A masking done with a covering of pretensions. <br />Only to excuse when and 'if' discovered, <br />As 'youthful' mistakes everyone makes?<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-mask-with-a-covering-of-pretensions/
