<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368011" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Changed Shoreline</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shore where once we played is now so neat, <br>A mass of pavers, brick walls and concrete; <br>No blade of grass, no rock, is out of place, <br>And joggers jog where children used to race.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where gum trees stood and where rank grasses grew, <br>Now all is perfect, clean and bright and new, <br>With paths and painted walls and fairy lights, <br>It's paradise by day and darkest nights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A seawall, and a narrow strip of sand, <br>Is all that separates the sea from land, <br>And when the tide comes up and swamps the beach, <br>Right to the wall the ocean's waters reach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then the sea sends forth its troops in waves, <br>To batter at the wall like willing slaves.<br>They strike it hard and search it for a fault, <br>And blow by blow these soldiers earn their salt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all the while does man these blows repel; <br>With rock and stone he seeks, the seas to quell, <br>As order fights against chaotic sea; <br>A war twixt man's and Nature's harmony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the end we all know who will lose, <br>But still just for a while will mankind choose<br>To order this creation to his taste, <br>Until in time his works are worn to waste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright © Dennis N. O'Brien,2011 - 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dennis+N.+O%27Brien">Dennis N. O'Brien</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=368011" data-title="Changed Shoreline de Dennis N. O'Brien" data-description="The shore where once we played is now so neat, A mass of pavers, brick walls and concrete; No blade of grass, no rock, is out of place, And joggers jog where children used to race. Where gum trees stood and where rank grasses grew, Now all is..."></div> </div> </div>

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