<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353276" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Simple lyric</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I think of her sparkling face<br>And of her body that rocked this way and that,<br>When I think of her laughter,<br>Her jubilance that filled me,<br>It’s a wonder I’m not gone mad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She is away and I cannot do what I want.<br>Other faces pale when I get close.<br>She is away and I cannot breathe her in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The space her leaving has created<br>I have attempted to fill<br>With bodies that numbed upon touching,<br>Among them I expected her opposite,<br>And found only forgeries.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her wholeness I know to be a fiction of my making,<br>Still I cannot dismiss the longing for her;<br>It is a craving for sensation new flesh<br>Cannot wholly calm or cancel,<br>It is perhaps for more than her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At night above the parks the stars are swarming.<br>The streets are thick with nostalgia;<br>I move through senseless routine and insensitive chatter<br>As if her going did not matter.<br>She is away and I cannot breathe her in.<br>I am ill simply through wanting her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Patten">Brian Patten</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=353276" data-title="Simple lyric de Brian Patten" data-description="When I think of her sparkling face And of her body that rocked this way and that, When I think of her laughter, Her jubilance that filled me, It’s a wonder I’m not gone mad. She is away and I cannot do what I want. Other faces pale when I get..."></div> </div> </div>

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