<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Going West</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sits in his rocking chair, <br>his dreams cemented in the past. <br>He wishes he had been a pioneer <br>packing up everything <br>and travelling west to start again afresh. <br>That is for the young men, <br>but he is an old man who thinks <br>things like that cannot be done now. <br>He is too old to start again. <br>He never tried it when he was young, <br>now time has passed <br>and all he can do is rock to and fro. <br>Wishing he had done it then. <br>Someone once told him <br>a long, long time ago <br>that nothing was impossible. <br>He smiled at the suggestion, <br>now he wonders of its validity. <br>Standing up he takes a deep breath <br>of the air around him <br>and coughs a little bit. <br>He smiles to himself, he is going to do it. <br>He is going west to the sunset, <br>the place where all his dream lay awaiting for him. <br>He will do it tomorrow, <br>then he sits back in his rocking chair <br>and thinks of all the beauty there he will find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">25 January 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</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=362447" data-title="Going West de David Harris" data-description="He sits in his rocking chair, his dreams cemented in the past. He wishes he had been a pioneer packing up everything and travelling west to start again afresh. That is for the young men, but he is an old man who thinks things like that cann..."></div> </div> </div>

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