<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=387310" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Buddha Thoughts (Hands On The Clock)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the old woman<br>shot and killed<br>the boy that broke in<br>and tried to rob her...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she sat staring into space<br>while the policemen <br>did their job...<br>suddenly she began to weep...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they tried to comfort her, <br>but she just wept harder.<br>they told her it was over, <br>that she was all right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she finally spoke in a broken voice: <br>'i was thinking about my son...'<br>'where is he? we'll get him<br>for you, bring him to you...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'he's in prison... he got messed up<br>on pills... ran out, and robbed a store...<br>he killed the woman behind the counter.'<br>frozen in deathlike silence, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">one by one, they looked down.<br>they loaded the body into the wagon, <br>her old cat ran from the porch...<br>an empty swing hung from a gnarled old tree...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a small trail of blood, <br>and there was no wind! <br>her old Bible unopened...<br>the hands on the clock kept crawling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</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=387310" data-title="Buddha Thoughts (Hands On The Clock) de Eric Cockrell" data-description="the old woman shot and killed the boy that broke in and tried to rob her... she sat staring into space while the policemen did their job... suddenly she began to weep... they tried to comfort her, but she just wept harder. they told her it was..."></div> </div> </div>

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