<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399918" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Time passes him (English ballade)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His world falls into disrepair, <br>as if pulled out of the universe, <br>his life shatters into fragments<br>he looses his work, his house</div><div style="margin:10px 0">chorus: <br>time passes him<br>days becomes weeks, weeks turn into months, <br>full of lonely evenings<br>months change into years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">his wife leaves him for a lover, <br>both of his cars are stolen, <br>his brown Labrador passes away from tick-bite fever<br>his black and white cat gets cat-flue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and nothing turns out well, <br>but he looks at life level-headed, <br>daily searches for work<br>and write poems one after the other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His motorbike is smashed<br>from under him by a four by four<br>and not really mended properly<br>while he tries to build a life from shoelaces</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when he walks down the street<br>the sky is pure blue, <br>he notices plovers on the rugby field<br>hears doves in the trees, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">faces are unknown to him, <br>he knows no girl in this new town<br>and he is speechless, <br>as some are smiling at him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but he talks to nobody, <br>is only observing, <br>every evening he has to take the family devotion<br>and it’s a struggle for him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and mornings when the sun rises, <br>he digs in the garden, <br>see weeds and grass sprouting out everywhere<br>and it’s as if everything keeps on declining</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and still he persists in hoping, <br>walking the road to town day after day<br>as if a miracle could happen suddenly, <br>as if at a time God can untie his life.</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> <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=399918" data-title="Time passes him (English ballade) de Gert Strydom" data-description="His world falls into disrepair, as if pulled out of the universe, his life shatters into fragments he looses his work, his house chorus: time passes him days becomes weeks, weeks turn into months, full of lonely evenings months change into ye..."></div> </div> </div>

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