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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365770" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lalani</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I swore, when my wife took off one night<br>That I'd never love again, <br>She'd left a note by the candlelight: <br>'I've been seeing other men! '<br>I stood in shock, I couldn't move, <br>Stood rooted to the floor, <br>And after I'd pulled the blinds, I cried, <br>Then locked the cottage door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The love that she'd sworn, just shadows; <br>The plans that we'd made, just sand, <br>My life had become a darker place<br>By the scrawl from a woman's hand.<br>The cottage was wreathed in silence, it<br>Was still, like a living tomb, <br>The only sounds were my echoing steps<br>As I paced there, in the gloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I spent, God! How many weeks? I sat<br>Just stared at a blank, white wall, <br>I didn't dare venture out, but drank, <br>I tried to forget it all, <br>But then I'd walk at the lonely beach<br>Where we'd skipped to a lovers tune, <br>The light of love had been in my eyes<br>As she'd danced to a harvest moon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The autumn passed in a drunken haze<br>The nights were becoming chill, <br>I warmed myself in the comforting blaze<br>Of a wood fire on the hill, <br>But then one night as the breakers crashed<br>And spent themselves on the reef, <br>I heard the sounds of a woman's moans<br>Rise up from the lonely beach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The storm was whipping the rising crests, <br>The wind soughed through the trees, <br>I made my way to the beach, and there <br>She crawled on her hands and knees, <br>I picked her up, and carried her back<br>To the cottage, and there I saw<br>The sea had savaged her body there, <br>Dragged over the rocky shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was no clothing of any sort, <br>Her skin was a pearly white, <br>But scraped and marred, she was loveliness<br>As she even bled in the night, <br>I washed and tended her every cut<br>And I held my breath in the gloom, <br>I couldn't believe my fortune there<br>As she lay in my own front room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wrapped her up in a robe, to save<br>Embarrassment for us both, <br>She slept content for an hour or two<br>While I watched, and prayed and hoped, <br>Then just at dawn, she opened her eyes<br>Took one brief glance at me, <br>Then muttered a word, she said, 'La-la...'<br>Again, said: 'La-lani.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For days she lay in a fever, and<br>I fed her on fish and bread, <br>I tried to get her to talk to me<br>But she only shook her head, <br>She'd had a cut on the side of her neck<br>That had healed, some time before, <br>But opened up as I stared at it, <br>So she hid it under her hair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within a week she was up and out, <br>Was dancing along the beach, <br>She'd smile, and tease me to chase her there, <br>I laughed, first time for weeks; <br>She peeled the robe off as she danced, <br>Came naked into my arms, <br>Then kissed and smothered me way out there<br>With all of her womanly charms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought that she might be deaf and dumb, <br>She never attempted a word, <br>But showed affection by patting my arm, <br>By nodding and shaking her head.<br>The slit on her neck stayed open, and<br>I looked at the other side, <br>Where one of the same had marred her skin, <br>She dropped her eyes, and sighed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd said I never would fall in love <br>Again, and that was true, <br>But that was before Lalani, <br>I was smitten, and that she knew.<br>I told her then that I wanted her, <br>Said I loved her more than life, <br>I didn't care that she couldn't speak, <br>I'd take her for my wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She smiled, but then looked troubled, <br>Dropped her head down onto her chin, <br>I found her down at the water's edge<br>Where the tide was coming in, <br>She opened her mouth and sang a note<br>As mournful as the grave, <br>Like the tone of a bell in a waterspout, <br>Or an underwater cave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there in the shallows rose a man<br>With skin like a silver fish, <br>With eyes like a giant halibut, <br>And teeth for tearing flesh, <br>He leapt right out of the water, <br>Seized her arm and dragged her in, <br>I shouted her name, 'Lalani...'<br>But they'd gone, and the sea was calm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In terror, I launched my boat, and revved<br>The engine out in the bay, <br>I circled the shallow waters, <br>Then I headed on out to sea, <br>I stopped at last, and stared straight down<br>To the weed on the ocean floor, <br>It was then that I saw Lalani<br>Swimming under the surface there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She floated, feet below me, <br>Looking up, and she waved goodbye, <br>The fish man waited down below<br>As she turned - I thought I'd die! <br>She sank to the depths, and out of sight, <br>I knew that she'd gone for good...<br>I'll burn the cottage one moonless night, <br>Love's not in my neighborhood! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">22 July 2009</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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That I'd never love again, 
She'd left a note by the candlelight: 
'I've been seeing other men! '
I stood in shock, I couldn't move, 
Stood rooted to the floor, 
And after I'd pulled the blinds, I cried, 
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