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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>By The Red Brick Wall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Immune to age was how it looked, <br>as if the books of time were cooked, <br>to those with luck enough to share<br>some part of you. Your 40s hair<br>and filmstar looks had me well hooked<br>from the start. I tried not to stare<br>and to play it cool and free, but, <br>a rising flame and rising fear <br>saw me rambling on like a nut-<br>job through the words you had to hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And not one eyelid did you bat<br>as you took my hand and we sat<br>on the steps of the old school gym, <br>you in grey and white and me in<br>another world, a Cheshire cat<br>in cream so deep I had to swim.<br>And so it stayed for months on end.<br>But all of us who wanted you, <br>we had no sense of time back then.<br>We all did what we had to do, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">always with one eye on the days<br>that lay ahead, where the long chase<br>of the lives we dreamt of, would lead.<br>And, what we had soon went to seed.<br>By the red brick wall, face to face, <br>in streaming tears we took our leave.<br>As for loving you, I couldn't<br>help myself. It was obvious.<br>And I blamed - because it suited -<br>events beyond the two of us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And twenty years would pass before<br>we met again and briefly spoke.<br>The usual stuff came flooding back.<br>It was ninety two, at the track, <br>and we'd no time for chat of course, <br>then, or later in the crowded bar<br>of the pub where we last met, dear, <br>when time was short and moving on: <br>much faster than we dared to fear, <br>‘til word was out that you were gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Superlatives were the first thing<br>I reached for when the news came in, <br>though you were never one who paid<br>the slightest attention to praise.<br>But, when the bells began to ring, <br>the throng that gathered in your name<br>for decency and humble strength -<br>and not your startling looks at all<br>for which both men and women fell -<br>was proof enough of what we'd lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jim+Hogg">Jim 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=418135" data-title="By The Red Brick Wall de Jim Hogg" data-description="Immune to age was how it looked, as if the books of time were cooked, to those with luck enough to share some part of you. Your 40s hair and filmstar looks had me well hooked from the start. I tried not to stare and to play it cool and free, but..."></div> </div> </div>
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