<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360306" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Summer Storm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We stood on the rented patio<br>While the party went on inside.<br>You knew the groom from college.<br>I was a friend of the bride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We hugged the brownstone wall behind us<br>To keep our dress clothes dry<br>And watched the sudden summer storm<br>Floodlit against the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rain was like a waterfall<br>Of brilliant beaded light,<br>Cool and silent as the stars<br>The storm hid from the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To my surprise, you took my arm–<br>A gesture you didn't explain–<br>And we spoke in whispers, as if we two<br>Might imitate the rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then suddenly the storm receded<br>As swiftly as it came.<br>The doors behind us opened up.<br>The hostess called your name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched you merge into the group,<br>Aloof and yet polite.<br>We didn't speak another word<br>Except to say goodnight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why does that evening's memory<br>Return with this night's storm–<br>A party twenty years ago,<br>Its disappointments warm?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are so many might have beens,<br>What ifs that won't stay buried,<br>Other cities, other jobs,<br>Strangers we might have married.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And memory insists on pining<br>For places it never went,<br>As if life would be happier<br>Just by being different.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dana+Gioia">Dana Gioia</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=360306" data-title="Summer Storm de Dana Gioia" data-description="We stood on the rented patio While the party went on inside. You knew the groom from college. I was a friend of the bride. We hugged the brownstone wall behind us To keep our dress clothes dry And watched the sudden summer storm Floodlit against ..."></div> </div> </div>

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