<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367642" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fear Of Beauty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It happened just the other day, <br>A High Street store not far away...<br>For there she was, so sweet of face, <br>While I stood staring with a gaze...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was no doubt within my mind<br>That she was noble, pure and kind...<br>And all at once, would I propose<br>Without a ring, without a rose...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet fear consumed my heart within, <br>As true love stirred, would not give in...<br>It beckoned me beyond my fear, <br>For now's the time, while she stands near...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She served a customer at hand, <br>While I stood in love's wonderland, <br>With pining, yearning, dreaming dreams, <br>Already thinking, planning schemes...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet while approaching, hopeful still, <br>My stomach churned and I felt ill...<br>What words could I relay to her? <br>My head was spinning, in a whir...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No words were said to that sweet maid, <br>I left her feeling quite afraid...<br>I trembled like a tragic fool! <br>My heart was hot, my head was cool...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I found some peace at home alone...<br>A better man her love would own...<br>A richer, stronger, wiser man...<br>And not like me, who ran and ran...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright August 2010.</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=367642" data-title="The Fear Of Beauty de Denis Martindale" data-description="It happened just the other day, A High Street store not far away... For there she was, so sweet of face, While I stood staring with a gaze... There was no doubt within my mind That she was noble, pure and kind... And all at once, would I propos..."></div> </div> </div>

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