<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392243" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Empire's Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had to live in Empire's heart<br>Like a slave who could not find escape<br>Drawn by magnets, bound with ropes <br>Swept by dragnets to his fate</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my daughter had to grow up there<br>On the fringe of passing luxury<br>Where for blessings of humility -<br>There was little, it was late</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was not the dark Congolese heart<br>Nor the dry sweet Kalahari too<br>Where fish-eating is taboo<br>And they do not drain the lake</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the flood is coming fast<br>Bearing minnows, beasts away<br>She will hold tight to the mast<br>In the ruins of the day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where it's not permitted to be sure<br>To predict or realize<br>If the Emperor or we will hold<br>The burden and the prize</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now my feet seek daily for the touch<br>Of secret garden dew<br>Bound in history to wait<br>For the peace I thought I knew.</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=392243" data-title="Empire's Heart de Frank Bana" data-description="I had to live in Empire's heart Like a slave who could not find escape Drawn by magnets, bound with ropes Swept by dragnets to his fate And my daughter had to grow up there On the fringe of passing luxury Where for blessings of humility - There ..."></div> </div> </div>

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