<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392220" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Challenge to Joy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That evening<br>I sat in weary happiness on the high marble steps<br>Of Grand Central Station, still hearing Dylan sing<br>Through the sweet-smelling air of the Beacon Theatre<br>As if the whole world's heart would be opening</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if white magic had taken hold<br>And for this night - or was it for two -<br>A remote transformation was possible<br>To a time of great joy, diamond-hard and true</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That night<br>When I stood in cowhide boots, guitar in hand<br>Beside the slow-moving Okavango waters<br>The thatch-covered Bistro still echoing with songs <br>We sang to amuse the cattlemen's daughters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Everything seemed more spacious around<br>And inquisitive moonlight disclosed to me<br>The motions of beasts on the opposite bank<br>Pure in their nature, unmolested and free</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That moment<br>When your beauty for the first time flooded my eyes<br>In a crowded red room at the height of a tower<br>Built by insurance on the Boston soils<br>Overlooking a wasteland of corporate power</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world seemed enlightened by your smile<br>Which spoke in radiance and gave no clues<br>To the pain weighing down upon innocent dreams <br>And the challenge to joy brought by childhood abuse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now joy surfs and glides on the waves of our lives<br>A singer harmonizing with a faint night breeze<br>A springbok tenses to leap in fright<br>Its joy proud and wounded, not captured with ease, <br>Wary of predators that haunt it always.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</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=392220" data-title="Challenge to Joy de Frank Bana" data-description="That evening I sat in weary happiness on the high marble steps Of Grand Central Station, still hearing Dylan sing Through the sweet-smelling air of the Beacon Theatre As if the whole world's heart would be opening As if white magic had taken hold..."></div> </div> </div>

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