<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Day (a song)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never expected to live so long<br>In those shell-shocked years when lymphoma came<br>In the proliferate shadow of the nuclear bomb<br>With wars fanning out like toxic flowers<br>It was hard to believe and grow up tall<br>Without a shield or a place to fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never thought I'd live to see<br>The days of crowds so dense and wild<br>In processionals of liberty<br>Nelson Mandela strolling free<br>Lands governed by people, not big men<br>Exulting the power of ballot and pen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm still waiting to walk that country of dreams<br>Where no child stays hungry, no baby weeps<br>While the waiting is longer than it seems<br>The poems in my head will send me to sleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never thought to live so long<br>With the taunts and screams assailing us<br>The acts of violence carrying on<br>And it threatened the heart, to look around<br>And see the mass of impunity<br>But I held my immunity, tight and strong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the certainty that you would come<br>And one day listen to my song.</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=392348" data-title="One Day (a song) de Frank Bana" data-description="I never expected to live so long In those shell-shocked years when lymphoma came In the proliferate shadow of the nuclear bomb With wars fanning out like toxic flowers It was hard to believe and grow up tall Without a shield or a place to fall. I..."></div> </div> </div>

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