<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391968" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Window</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In after years, when you look back upon<br>This time, and upon me, who am no more<br>Close to your heart nor a shadow in your sun,<br>Perhaps you will stand still and lean on the door<br>Or lay down something, feeling quite undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some passing stranger, or a turn of phrase,<br>Or any echo or shade, will be enough,<br>Anything that is worn and almost effaced,<br>Anything half finished, will be proof<br>I was no natural but an acquired taste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So you will stand there, looking back, inspired<br>As though the curtains parted on some view<br>Not quite to be believed in, nor desired,<br>And which did not exist except for you,<br>Like some clay thing the potter never fired.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, it would not be wise to throw the window wide.<br>Close it quickly, before it hurts, and go<br>About your usual tasks, and let time hide<br>Beneath mountains of hours, what you know<br>Cannot be lived again, yet has not died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Scarfe">Francis Scarfe</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=391968" data-title="The Window de Francis Scarfe" data-description="In after years, when you look back upon This time, and upon me, who am no more Close to your heart nor a shadow in your sun, Perhaps you will stand still and lean on the door Or lay down something, feeling quite undone. Some passing stranger, or ..."></div> </div> </div>

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