<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=382357" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Magic Carpet Ride</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take me for a magic carpet ride.<br>Let that magic carpet glide<br>slowly so I can see<br>all the places where misery<br>lives every day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let it glide over Iraq<br>so I can see why our boys can't come back<br>to their babies and wives<br>and try best they can to get on with their lives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let it glide over the Gaza strip<br>where two nations are joined at the hip<br>and don't even know it.<br>I can see the misery from where I sit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let it glide over the oil fields<br>where they pump the lifeblood that the earth yields.<br>Black gold all for a price<br>in a bloody war of sacrifice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let it glide over the African land<br>to help me try and understand<br>why all of its beauty and natural resource<br>is raped and pillaged with no remorse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let it glide over China's great wall<br>separating its people from the rest of us all, <br>where liberties are abused on every day, <br>where no one's allowed to have a say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me glide over the Vatican<br>where so much praise is given one man.<br>Gold is there wherever I gaze.<br>Poverty forgotten, but not the praise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me glide over the streets of our cities<br>where the smog is thick and makes you wheeze.<br>The homeless and beggars begging for change<br>in a land of freedom. I find that strange.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take me back to my own little home<br>from wherever my carpet ride did roam.<br>I've seen too much misery for one long day.<br>It's time for me to lie down and pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwina+Reizer">Edwina Reizer</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=382357" data-title="Magic Carpet Ride de Edwina Reizer" data-description="Take me for a magic carpet ride. Let that magic carpet glide slowly so I can see all the places where misery lives every day. Let it glide over Iraq so I can see why our boys can't come back to their babies and wives and try best they can to get ..."></div> </div> </div>

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