<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413503" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Acknowledgement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The death knell sounds and echoes round <br>the confines of the burial ground<br>The tolling bell seems to foretell.<br>Life will become a lonely hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My love is gone, she’s travelled on, <br> her race is run and she has won.<br>No longer bound by gravity <br>she’s earned her wings and she is free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By sadness I am overcome.<br>I am struck dumb, completely numb.<br>I cannot cry although I try.<br>The wellspring of my tears run dry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mourners murmur quietly <br>but no one comes to comfort me.<br>This does not come as a surprise.<br>They do not seem to realise</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The love I bore for her was true.<br>We were a partnership we two, <br>which lasted over thirty years.<br>I wonder why nobody dares</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To offer me their sympathy<br>a little sensitivity. <br>But they still show they disapprove.<br>They do not understand that love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between two women is as real <br>as the emotions which they feel.<br>But then her mother chooses to<br> do what the others dare not do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She comes to me and takes my hand <br>and says my dear I understand<br>You loved just her as much as I <br>it is appropriate to cry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The courage which she chose to show <br>allowed my pent up tears to flow<br>When she acknowledged publicly<br> what her daughter had been to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">22-May-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413503" data-title="Acknowledgement de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="The death knell sounds and echoes round the confines of the burial ground The tolling bell seems to foretell. Life will become a lonely hell. My love is gone, she’s travelled on, her race is run and she has won. No longer bound by gravity s..."></div> </div> </div>

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