<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392426" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Quiet One (for Beatle George)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They met him on the local bus, just<br>Local boys not knowing they were bound<br>For glory, greatness, and here was<br> <br>The one to always ask for less<br>The quiet one, who worked hard on his lines<br>Holding his own above the fuss<br> <br>For years they kept him to the wings<br>Without stage mark or microphone<br>Rising to harmonize but not to sing<br> <br>Saturn's dark sun, its self-effacing child<br>Of Krishna, kept strong by belief<br>Sharing his heart, looking for inner light<br> <br>It was more difficult to hold<br>To keep that faith when all around<br>Of his small frame it rained, the arrogance<br> <br>Intrusion, all the slights and checks<br>Of his kind and careless friends<br>Advice on what and where and how to play<br> <br>And when the dam burst and the songs poured down<br>The rivers he had stored, the chants suppressed<br>In deference rang quiet and strong, the hum<br> <br>Of new contentment in his mind, the sign<br>To cultivate his garden and his son<br>Discovered footsteps in that quiet time<br> <br>When cancer is held back, in check<br>And has not come again, not yet<br>To take the life on which it once laid claim<br> <br>He thought back to those years, he said<br>They gave their screams, the Beatles gained insight<br>And gave their nervous systems in exchange.</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=392426" data-title="The Quiet One (for Beatle George) de Frank Bana" data-description="They met him on the local bus, just Local boys not knowing they were bound For glory, greatness, and here was The one to always ask for less The quiet one, who worked hard on his lines Holding his own above the fuss For years they kept him to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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