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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366025" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vanishing Point</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd noticed the girl a dozen times<br>As she passed me on the street, <br>All I could see were those red-rimmed eyes<br>And that look of pure defeat, <br>So often I thought to stop her there<br>To ask her what was wrong, <br>But I lived in a part of the city where<br>Such weakness didn't belong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We all sit huddled in high rise flats<br>And keep ourselves to ourselves, <br>We don't get involved with the neighbours, <br>Heaven forbid that we should be friends, <br>We eye each other suspiciously<br>On the dark and dingy street, <br>And try to walk in the shadows<br>So that our passing will be discreet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But often I'd pass the local cop<br>As he put the posters up, <br>‘Does anyone know the whereabouts…'<br>But nobody even stopped, <br>So many faces on poles and posts<br>And the names they would annoint, <br>Of those who'd gone to the edge of the world, <br>Right through to the Vanishing Point! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often wondered about them all, <br>Was it easier to escape? <br>Was life such a terrible martyrdom<br>In the hands of a fickle fate? <br>So many were lost with every year<br>Was it murder, mayhem or less, <br>How many husbands misplaced their wives<br>In an act of carelessness? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The girl intrigued me, every day<br>She would pass by the corner shop, <br>But I never saw her happy or gay<br>She'd the weight of the world on top, <br>She slowly became insubstantial, like<br>A wraith that was taking the air, <br>I followed her round from a distance<br>Watched her enter the Pearly Fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were clowns and strange hobgoblins there, <br>And often a Harlequin, <br>They wandered around in a daze, it seemed<br>Like a circus about to begin, <br>And not one had an identity<br>Apart from the paint they wore, <br>A slight disguise in a world of lies<br>Said, ‘What did we come here for? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The girl got changed for the Judy Show<br>Full size, and Punch was a man, <br>He beat her there with a wooden club<br>As the audience clapped their hands, <br>The ‘club' was really a cardboard roll<br>But it must have hurt like sin, <br>And Judy cried as the audience died, <br>‘I'm back in the world again! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I followed her down to the waterside<br>At dusk, with its evil smell, <br>And others, still in their sad disguise<br>Were milling around, as well, <br>They warmed themselves by a brazier<br>And looked for a place to sleep, <br>But ‘Judy' stood by the empty dock<br>And the water there was deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My eyes played tricks in the dimming light<br>She started to fade away, <br>Became as one with the falling night<br>Where the lost and the beaten pray, <br>She was there one minute and gone the next<br>The movement was so adroit, <br>The water formed like a giant tear<br>Right there, at the Vanishing Point!</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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All I could see were those red-rimmed eyes
And that look of pure defeat, 
So often I thought to stop her there
To ask her what was wrong, 
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