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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365754" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Must Have Been Sleeping</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Where are you going, ' I heard her say<br>As the dream took me straight to the core, <br>We parked at the side of a very long road<br>And I got out the driver's door; <br>'I've never known that, ' I replied, and she sat<br>On her hands, with the pain of surprise, <br>'So what you've been saying has never been true! '<br>The tears rose up in her eyes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The road has been long, the road has been wide, <br>I never knew where I could turn.'<br>'I thought you were happy with me, ' she said; <br>There was nothing to say in return.<br>'I must have been sleeping for seventeen years, '<br>My voice sounded foreign and coarse, <br>But I couldn't handle the sighs and the lies, <br>Or the terrible sound of - 'divorce! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walked to the wood at the side of the road, <br>And followed the pathway around, <br>I couldn't look back now I'd made up my mind<br>Though I walked unfamiliar ground, <br>The clearing was quiet, the birds didn't sing, <br>A mountain rose up in my view, <br>I suddenly saw there was no going back<br>To the comfortable life that I knew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cast off my shackles and took a deep breath, <br>To breathe in both freedom and pride, <br>My strength was returning, and clearer my eye, <br>I walked with a bounce in my stride, <br>The years fell away, I was thirty again, <br>I stopped then, and sat on a stone, <br>For darkness was gathering there in the gloom<br>With that terrible feeling - alone! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought of the woman I'd left on the road, <br>Who'd always been faithful to me, <br>The tears that she'd shed for a love that was dead<br>Made me sad, and ashamed to be free, <br>I thought of the comfort she'd given me when<br>All my world started going insane, <br>She'd cooked and she'd cared, and she'd loved and she'd shared<br>And I'd given her nothing but pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I turned on the track, and I made my way back<br>But I couldn't see where I had been, <br>I stumbled through thickets and walked into trees<br>And I fell on my knees on the green.<br>'I am lost, I am lost, ' I cried into the night<br>Then I heard her voice, dim, by a tree<br>And woke to her stroking my face and my brow<br>As I cried… She was waiting for me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">9 March 2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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As the dream took me straight to the core, 
We parked at the side of a very long road
And I got out the driver's door; 
'I've never known that, ' I replied, and she sat
On her hands, with the pain of surpris..."></div>
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