<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367414" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Scarface</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Scarface wasn't all that old<br>But lions tend to age<br>When grizzled hearts turn freezing cold<br>Yet burn with white-hot rage! <br>He stands there, staring, fuming mad! <br>His teeth like gnarly nails...<br>A gentle lion now turned bad, <br>Completely off the rails! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's lost his friends, he walks alone, <br>He's always on his guard...<br>His reputation's so well known<br>That others call him hard.<br>He fights to win and always will<br>Until old age creeps near, <br>Like others, he has blood to spill, <br>From scars from ear-to-ear...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Scarface, how I pity you...<br>Not born a butterfly, <br>Not born a gentle dove, it's true, <br>Perhaps ashamed to cry...<br>Your days are filled with fury fights, <br>Until your days are done...<br>Then who will care of cold delights<br>And battles that you've won? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, July 2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting<br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Old Scarface'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More Stephen Gayford poems here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot.com</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=367414" data-title="Old Scarface de Denis Martindale" data-description="Old Scarface wasn't all that old But lions tend to age When grizzled hearts turn freezing cold Yet burn with white-hot rage! He stands there, staring, fuming mad! His teeth like gnarly nails... A gentle lion now turned bad, Completely off the r..."></div> </div> </div>

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