<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353471" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Requiem For A Princess Murdered By Her Gardener</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blondin walks the tightrope<br>over Niagara, <br>forwards, backwards, <br>blindfolded, on a bicycle, <br>to distant applause<br>among crashing waters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ten times, twenty, fifty….</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One step missed <br>answers the first step taken<br>onto the swaying rope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, everything is, <br>as it has always been; <br>jagged rocks and thundering waters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into the silence<br>where yesterday's applause<br>cannot reach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those who inherit<br>the lands of the lotus eaters<br>are not yesterday's children.<br>The path to the top<br>of the Golden Mountain<br>is the labour<br>of many hands and feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They could not count the sands of the Ganges.<br>How would we reckon the length of a kalpa? <br>Or the work of hands? <br>Or the pairs of sandals<br>worn through to the dust<br>on such a journey?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brian+Taylor">Brian Taylor</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=353471" data-title="Requiem For A Princess Murdered By Her Gardener de Brian Taylor" data-description="Blondin walks the tightrope over Niagara, forwards, backwards, blindfolded, on a bicycle, to distant applause among crashing waters. Ten times, twenty, fifty…. One step missed answers the first step taken onto the swaying rope. Then, ever..."></div> </div> </div>

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