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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397693" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Better It Would Have Been (Sonnet Corona / Crown Of Sonnets)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without you much better it would have been, <br>if in this wide world under all the skies<br>I did not know you, I had never seen<br>the glimmer, the attraction in your eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better it would have been if I unseen<br>at the braking of that particular day<br>joyous, somewhat sincere like a teen<br>went on another different kind of way, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I would then have totally missed you<br>as our love, our joy was sealed in vain.<br>You would not have opportunity to do<br>things that leave much heartache and pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as your heart was set in some treachery, <br>your blunt rebuke was not sought by me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your blunt rebuke was not sought by me, <br>yet you gave it to me as if earned, <br>as if from it I was not to be free, <br>its impact did hurt and really burned</div><div style="margin:10px 0">right into my depths, my heart's inner core<br>and still I then very much loved you<br>every day more and even much more<br>as something very sincere and true</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but my Lord I loved more deeper still<br>as He always dwelled in everything <br>and I try to live by His very will, <br>with your love being at times a cursing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and at times there was water on my glasses; <br>when the wild wind rushes through the grasses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the wild wind rushes through the grasses, <br>it is something that you will never see<br>nor the beauty of the places were it passes<br>as you can never be really quite free</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from the rich earthly things that embraces<br>you in wantonness, in deep iniquity <br>and at many different kinds of places<br>high up on the hill and down in the lea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">diamonds adorn grasses and wild flowers<br>as if nature cries for you and me<br>as tears of dew that shines, not from showers<br>while life is how it's determined to be, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when you had chosen a fresh sort of start; <br>I did not ask you to return my heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did not ask you to return my heart<br>you have trampled it again and again<br>and now it would be really just in vain<br>as it is broken in every part</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but now from each other being apart<br>we live separate lives of joy and pain<br>and the simple fact does still remain, <br>it does not take someone really quite smart</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to know that when you do not have me<br>your whole life becomes somewhat mundane, <br>then you do not really want to be free<br>and I know that it sounds very inane<br>but obviously I cannot anymore be <br>yours in love's strange painful mystery.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yours in love's strange painful mystery <br>were without any tears and full of glee<br>but left me totally broken hearted<br>then I noted after more than fifteen years</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that you did not take a last kind of kiss, <br>from me was taking whatever you could, <br>had totally forgotten our sweet bliss, <br>maybe I knew this was the way that it would.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish time and again not to have know you<br>in the way that it ended when you were gone, <br>while then you had been wickedly untrue <br>had have intimate sex with someone, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it's sometimes hard to be the only one, <br>when at night in darkness I lie down alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When at night in darkness I lie down alone <br>the golden moon and all the stars are bright <br>and some of them to me are quite unknown, <br>Orion and the seven sisters gleam at night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but life does continually carry on<br>the morning sun seems at times out of sight <br>and it is stripped from all affection<br>but can constantly bring back life and light</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to what is still left of my kind of world, <br>as if everything is falling apart<br>and in all the things that I do behold<br>you seem to be somehow the crucial part</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if everything was astray leaden, <br>as you left me, my life did then deaden.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As you left me, my life did then deaden<br>as if being tied up and underfed, <br>walking away, not anymore a maiden, <br>leaving my heart filled with only dread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In love I saw you as pure and holy<br>a mother for children, true to the gods, <br>but with your lover you acted lowly<br>as you did cast me away to life's odds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and you have lost all the joyful graces<br>with the very thoughts of you that remain, <br>images of your many different faces<br>are filled to the brim with utter pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and to meet you again I am not keen, <br>without you much better it would have been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q>
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Without you much better it would have been, 
if in this wide world under all the skies
I did not know you, I had never seen
the glimmer, the attraction in your eyes.

Better it would have been if I unseen
at the braking of that particular day
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