<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390236" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Promise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She watched the flames as they flickered up the coals, <br>and felt the warmth emanate from them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not a real fire, of course, <br>but one that was commanded by electricity, <br>effective none the less.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leaning back in the chair, she thought, <br>funny how we can be taken in by something ‘fake’<br>that looks so genuine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like his stories, all bogus, burning the heart, slowly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they first met, all was dreamy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was handsome, charming, debonair, <br>compatibility seemed to exist between them.<br>The perfect gent that she had hoped to find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then she found out it was all a sham, <br>and that he was a cheat, a liar<br>and a philanderer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On overwhelming feeling of revulsion had taken over<br>and anger filled her mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She looked again towards the reddish orange blaze, <br>and made a promise to herself, never to get burnt<br>by an imitation of the bona fide article.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernestine+Northover">Ernestine Northover</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=390236" data-title="A Promise de Ernestine Northover" data-description="She watched the flames as they flickered up the coals, and felt the warmth emanate from them. Not a real fire, of course, but one that was commanded by electricity, effective none the less. Leaning back in the chair, she thought, funny how w..."></div> </div> </div>

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