<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364299" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Last Man Standing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My eldest is in China<br>On the way to the Li Jiang<br>She’s seen the Terracotta Warriors<br>In a place that called Xian.<br> <br>My youngest, she’s in Sydney town<br>Her love in life is reading books<br>She has a sense of fantasy<br>And red curled Irish looks.<br> <br>Me? I am in Pearl Beach<br>For others paradise<br>But I am on my own up here<br>And lead a damaged life.<br> <br>I suffer from depression<br>And that’s very clear to see<br>For though the sun is shining high<br>It looks so dark to me.<br> <br>I have many close that hold me<br>I am lucky in that way<br>They love me just for me being me<br>And don’t seem go away.<br> <br>But the track of time’s unwinding<br>Each year, past friends are lost<br>Sometimes illness, now a suicide<br>And ‘gainst their names I put a cross.<br> <br>For I am the last man standing<br>I’m like those soldiers made of clay<br>I am the last man standing<br>I am not going to go away.<br> <br>I am the last man standing<br>For I have a hand of cards<br>That others wish that they did have<br>But being the last’s becoming hard.<br> <br>For my eldest is in China<br>My youngest still in Sydney town<br>Although they are away from me<br>My heart is with them now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look! My greyness, it is passing<br>Now I can see the sun! <br>I know they love me for being me<br>Not for what I have not done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For this thing called life is fragile<br>But it has a strength within<br>Not brittle like those warriors<br>But as fine as porcelain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Keig">David Keig</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=364299" data-title="Last Man Standing de David Keig" data-description="My eldest is in China On the way to the Li Jiang She’s seen the Terracotta Warriors In a place that called Xian. My youngest, she’s in Sydney town Her love in life is reading books She has a sense of fantasy And red curled Irish looks. Me?..."></div> </div> </div>

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