<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Empty Nest</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our house this night is full of life, <br>both kids up in their rooms.<br>We're safe and warm from the harrowing storm<br>with its lightening streaks and booms.<br>Yet soon I know, both have to go, <br>to school, to work, to life.<br>Then this will be an empty nest<br>with just me and my wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>How do birds feel, when, freshly fledged, <br>their young depart forever.<br>Do they sing more somberly<br>when the chicks are not together? <br>We're creatures of habit, like those birds<br>I see when we're in the park.<br>I'll catch myself gazing up the stairs<br>when both their rooms are dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</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=419999" data-title="Empty Nest de John F. McCullagh" data-description="Our house this night is full of life, both kids up in their rooms. We're safe and warm from the harrowing storm with its lightening streaks and booms. Yet soon I know, both have to go, to school, to work, to life. Then this will be an empty nest..."></div> </div> </div>

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