<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365909" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Contract</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see with eyes<br>Not of my conception.<br>I steal sighs and weave why’s<br>Wrought from some disaffection with your<br>Wherefore’s and therefore’s, and buts<br>Ifs, ands, hands and thighs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Am I to lie, dissatisfied<br>In tides of life’s distractions<br>With your ‘what’s more’s’, cricket scores<br>And less of interaction with your<br>Lipsticks and silk slips, and knees<br>Tongue, tights, slights and flaws? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This contract slips<br>Contrasting inclination<br>With my part clause, refer yours<br>Regarding dissipation of my<br>Needs, pleas, misdeeds, and tears<br>Ties, lies, sub-para four.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the end? <br>Our last is our disaster<br>For the dream cries, and love lies<br>In the bleeding alabaster of our<br>Silken skins and our lie-ins, where the pain<br>Pours, the same soars and sighs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">29 March 1977</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> <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=365909" data-title="The Contract de David Lewis Paget" data-description="I see with eyes Not of my conception. I steal sighs and weave why’s Wrought from some disaffection with your Wherefore’s and therefore’s, and buts Ifs, ands, hands and thighs. Am I to lie, dissatisfied In tides of life’s distractions With..."></div> </div> </div>

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