<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392394" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Song of the Chobe River</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were a song in my life, a short time in the singing<br>You taught me the chords of your being, you found me listening to the words<br>Together we made rhythms, and our beat was nearing harmony<br>Until the sheet music was torn, and papers turned in the wind<br>That took them back to fire and ash.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your song is a slow echo in my being. It may be early morning<br>In the dawn of waking, or twilight in a sudden second, when again<br>I hear it. I need to place and sustain it<br>But cannot figure out the key, or construct the right arrangement.<br>I guess the planet vibrations carry it back to you, <br>Waiting in your house and life, listening to the village songs, <br>Town telegraph – as you always did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I praise the song you gave me, and drink the tears you left me<br>Fallen on a round stone table, high beside this river<br>Which is a vein of Africa, an artery of your life, <br>Where languages and tributaries meet.<br>I will make a new song for you, because your love has asked me -<br>It is broken and uneven, it will seek our faded harmony<br>To be faithful to the river, to be sung.</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=392394" data-title="Song of the Chobe River de Frank Bana" data-description="You were a song in my life, a short time in the singing You taught me the chords of your being, you found me listening to the words Together we made rhythms, and our beat was nearing harmony Until the sheet music was torn, and papers turned in the..."></div> </div> </div>

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