<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367238" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If Not For Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If not for love, who would be kissed? <br>Romance itself would not exist.<br>A billion songs would not be penned<br>And poetry would have an end.<br>The arts that we enjoy right now, <br>Would fade away in time somehow -<br>For who would sculpt and who would paint<br>Without the patience of a saint? <br>And what's a saint without a heart<br>That's full of love it would impart? <br>If not for love, no child would smile.<br>No queue would stand in single file.<br>No please, no thanks or God bless you! <br>No promise kept, no credit due, <br>No holding hands or soft caress, <br>No hope, no peace, no happiness, <br>No fervent prayer would reach God's Throne...<br>We would feel lost and so alone...<br>The world would spin and time would pass, <br>But life would be a foolish farce...<br>Not one of us would find life safe<br>Without strong heroes to be brave.<br>We know that emptiness within<br>Brings apathy that leads to sin.<br>There comes a parting of the ways -<br>There always is, if no-one prays...<br>If not for love, no rose would grow, <br>Because each rose would somehow know<br>If love had died, what use to live? <br>For who would buy and who would give? <br>If love left Earth and we lived on, <br>How soon before we sensed it gone? <br>An hour, a day, a week or more? <br>To tell the truth, I'm not quite sure! <br>For no-one wants to hold my hand<br>Or kiss my lips as I had planned...<br>In fact, upon my funeral...<br>I wonder who would care at all...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</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=367238" data-title="If Not For Love de Denis Martindale" data-description="If not for love, who would be kissed? Romance itself would not exist. A billion songs would not be penned And poetry would have an end. The arts that we enjoy right now, Would fade away in time somehow - For who would sculpt and who would paint ..."></div> </div> </div>

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