<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lantern</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">he lit his lantern and<br>walked out on the porch, <br>with his old dog<br>by his side....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">he could see the wind<br>walking through the trees, <br>wrapped in the stillness<br>and comfort of darkness...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how long had it been? <br>25 cents a gallon gasoline, <br>Marlboros,25 cents a pack! <br>working all week for 55 dollars....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sawmills, factories, milking cows, <br>a hoe and a gallon jar of water.<br>hanging the gears on his old truck...<br>cold beer, making love all night....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">civil unrest and high ideals, <br>bulletproof, with a taste for danger.<br>then the children came... working <br>more for less... till he became invisible....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the world careened into madness, <br>enough was never enough....<br>and all his dreams fell to dust.....<br>the wings of the eagle rusted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">standing alone, with his dog, <br>peering into the night....<br>listening to whispering ghosts....<br>listening... for the voice of love....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for the sound of his<br>own heart beating!</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=388232" data-title="Lantern de Eric Cockrell" data-description="he lit his lantern and walked out on the porch, with his old dog by his side.... he could see the wind walking through the trees, wrapped in the stillness and comfort of darkness... how long had it been? 25 cents a gallon gasoline, Marlboros..."></div> </div> </div>

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