<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367431" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>People Are Like Pearls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's true that people are like pearls<br>Each shining in the sun, <br>To God, they're just like boys and girls<br>All busy having fun...<br>And while there's irritation known<br>To visit every soul, <br>Through prayer each needn't feel alone, <br>Outside of God's control...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As time goes by, like pearls we sleep, <br>Amid a darkened room, <br>Just gliding in a midnight deep, <br>To wake, we would assume...<br>Cocooned a while, yet growing still<br>Through weeks and months and years, <br>Not one of us possessing skill<br>As all of this appears...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We merely grow, from tiny things, <br>Within the space God gives, <br>Not knowing what the future brings, <br>Yet that's how each one lives...<br>We shield ourselves from harm and pain, <br>We nestle where we are<br>And if we think there's much to gain, <br>We'll wish upon a star...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Together, pearls make jewellery, <br>United in one cause<br>And we could share such harmony <br>If we obeyed God's laws...<br>Each tiny pearl transforms with growth, <br>For beauty waits in store<br>And beauty is God's treasure trove, <br>Of that, you can be sure...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, February 2012.</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=367431" data-title="People Are Like Pearls de Denis Martindale" data-description="It's true that people are like pearls Each shining in the sun, To God, they're just like boys and girls All busy having fun... And while there's irritation known To visit every soul, Through prayer each needn't feel alone, Outside of God's cont..."></div> </div> </div>

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