<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389758" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Locked</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Children tattooed, pierced and studded, dreadlocked;<br>parents panicked, indecisive, deadlocked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother to daughter: live as you must, if you must;<br>for just a bit longer, keep the door to your bed locked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Son to father: teach me what you know,<br>but I won't agree to keep the door to my head locked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother to father: where have you been, and where<br>have you kept your thoughts and all you might have said locked?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They'd come so far, and then she saw, in him,<br>the door to their life, their home, their daily bread locked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night in a fiery panic dream he ran<br>and found the door toward which he'd wildly fled locked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aging, but at long last ripe and ready,<br>she found the on-ramp to the road ahead locked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They learned too late the cost of keeping that cellar<br>full of truths that could not be gainsaid locked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The young return. Too many find the way back<br>to lives in the country for which they fought and bled locked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eric, old friend, as you try each door in the mind,<br>will you wake one day to find the heart instead locked?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Torgersen">Eric Torgersen</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=389758" data-title="Locked de Eric Torgersen" data-description="Children tattooed, pierced and studded, dreadlocked; parents panicked, indecisive, deadlocked. Mother to daughter: live as you must, if you must; for just a bit longer, keep the door to your bed locked. Son to father: teach me what you know, but..."></div> </div> </div>

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