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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418154" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines to...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if I can remember <br>What I couldn't help but love <br>And if even part of that <br>Still holds as true <br>As when we knew each other truly <br>Then maybe I can bear to lose <br>The skin deep things <br>The qualities of youth <br>That work the initial <br>But not the lasting <br>Magic of love <br>For the silky smooth grows lined <br>The gypsy fades to grey <br>And time keeps stealing from the eyes <br>All this I know too well <br>When I catch myself <br>Unsuspecting <br>In a shop front window <br>Where you might be too <br>And not recognise or be recognised </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I suppose there's a tender <br>and tragic beauty <br>In this failing and fading <br>But I'm not afraid <br>Of what we'll see - yet - <br>Should we meet again love, <br>Unless, <br>We've lost too much <br>Of the best we had within us once. <br>I pray that I'll catch sight <br>Of the little things <br>That came from the heart <br>Depicting that inner balance <br>In which I longed to share; <br>The absence of affectation <br>Your irresistible honesty. <br>And pray there's still something here <br>Of what touched you too <br>So long ago </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I tried to fix myself of course <br>By writing songs <br>You might be amused to hear <br>As if this was a disease <br>As if I could exorcise <br>The demons of lost love <br>By charming them into other rooms <br>Other ears <br>And sundry halls <br>By means of minor chords <br>And anguished words <br>To sicken them with endless recitals. <br>And drafted a lengthy tale <br>With you as principal, <br>Baffling the best minds on the planet. <br>All to no avail or worse <br>As every curative design <br>Seemed to breathe new vigour <br>Into those oh so seductive memories. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eventually it came to me <br>Why charge up the past by fighting it? <br>Accept the beauty of what was <br>And carry it in its place <br>Which doesn't mean it matters less. <br>If we met tomorrow <br>I would still be a mess </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still I wonder where you are love? <br>Walking on some nearby city street <br>With your languid elegance <br>Glimpsing the years <br>In that sobering window <br>And wondering too? <br>Or with your family <br>Round the table of a lifetime of love? <br>Long past what might have been <br>And happy now? <br>I hope so with all my heart, <br>But miss you still, <br>No less than ever. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>09 11 06</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>
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What I couldn't help but love 
And if even part of that 
Still holds as true 
As when we knew each other truly 
Then maybe I can bear to lose 
The skin deep things 
The qualities of youth 
That work the initial 
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