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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365862" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Strangers in Time</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll ever remember the day she left<br>In a storm, I was so unkind, <br>I'd hurled the dinner right over her head<br>At the wall, and it blew her mind! <br>‘That's it! ' she muttered, and grabbed her bag<br>Went sailing out of the door, <br>With never a backward glance at me<br>Or our lives, forever more! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sat for a week, just waited, thinking<br>Soon she'll be coming home, <br>Sat in the dark and hated, loved, <br>Then thought I'd better atone, <br>So I took to the streets, her mother's house<br>But of her, there wasn't a trace, <br>I tried her sister and brother's homes<br>And they slammed the door in my face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Louise had walked right out of my life<br>And she wouldn't be coming back, <br>My world collapsed in a fit of tears<br>But I had to accept the fact, <br>I walked unthinking into the road, <br>Was hit by the local bus, <br>I vaguely remember the ambulance bell<br>And waking up in a truss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was something odd in that hospital, <br>I couldn't quite pin it down, <br>The ward was the long, old-fashioned sort<br>In a seedy part of town, <br>I noticed the nurse's uniforms<br>Were odd, like they used to wear<br>Back in the fifties, as a kid<br>I'd had tonsillitis there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was more than plenty of time to think<br>And I went back through my life, <br>Went back to every decision I'd made<br>Right up to losing my wife, <br>If I'd just done this, or just said that<br>I'd have taken a different tack, <br>So many ways I'd mishandled things<br>With no chance of going back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there, behind each second of time<br>Was a choice that we'd have to make, <br>Two paths had always been open to us<br>What path did the other path take? <br>Could there be a parallel universe<br>Where the other half of me, <br>Had made those different decisions, <br>Was alive, but happy and free? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It took three months for my wounds to heal<br>Then I found myself in the street, <br>It wasn't the town I remembered, though, <br>It had changed, perceptively, <br>And I was feeling much younger<br>So much fitter than before, <br>A glimpse of my face in a mirror, caught<br>And shocked me to the core! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went to the university<br>And there I saw Louise, <br>Just as I'd seen her years before<br>And she waved and smiled at me, <br>Or I thought she did, but she passed me by<br>Went up to another man, <br>Kissed him there in the quad, and then<br>Walked off with him, hand in hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was back in a parallel universe<br>Before she'd become my wife, <br>And now I remembered, Andy Cole<br>Had caused me a lot of strife, <br>We'd both gone after the same Louise<br>In the end, she'd chosen me, <br>But not before he had done with her, <br>Walked off, and set her free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I followed them at a distance to<br>The place where they shared a flat, <br>I noticed she wore a wedding ring<br>And I thought that that was that! <br>I'd come too late in this scheme of things<br>That had taken another line, <br>I walked by her, but she knew me not, <br>We were simply strangers in time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then suddenly I was back at home<br>And closing the old front door, <br>I could smell Louise's cooking, it<br>Was a dish I'd come to abhor, <br>I took my place at the table and<br>She handed me the plate, <br>I said, ‘It smells delicious, dear! '<br>I'm the master of my fate! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">7 October 2012</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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In a storm, I was so unkind, 
I'd hurled the dinner right over her head
At the wall, and it blew her mind! 
‘That's it! ' she muttered, and grabbed her bag
Went sailing out of the door, 
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