<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392365" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Promises of Golden Fire (for Leonard, again)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You wrote your book of longing<br>Took down the songs of mercy<br>Every style of tenderness<br>Was in your verse exalted</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go you now to write<br>The last song of redemption<br>Before it is too late<br>To sing its vast refrain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You old bastard, Leonard<br>You faithlessly transcribed<br>The sacred rhymes and litanies<br>Of holy damaged lives<br>Leaving us to seduce the ones<br>Whom you long abandoned<br>At second hand, with only<br>Your creations at our side</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poems with the raven eyes<br>And songs that stare from telegraph wires<br>Lured me into darkness<br>With promises of golden fire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm sorry to hear you lost your mother<br>And I know you miss your father<br>To be alone is always very hard<br>Will you leave us orphaned now<br>Drowning in laments<br>And pieties of priests and prison guards</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were right about one thing<br>They always lock up the wrong men<br>And we are still at war<br>With the religious and the carnivore<br>Chauvinists and feminists<br>And all who wish to strangle love<br>Of its final poetry and breath</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were right, I'll give you that<br>I bring you this, an offering<br>A poem you never sought<br>And will never swear a moment by<br>From a man so cheaply bought<br>And still enslaved as I.</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=392365" data-title="Promises of Golden Fire (for Leonard, again) de Frank Bana" data-description="You wrote your book of longing Took down the songs of mercy Every style of tenderness Was in your verse exalted Go you now to write The last song of redemption Before it is too late To sing its vast refrain You old bastard, Leonard You faithless..."></div> </div> </div>

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