<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424758" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Black Tie Affairs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behind sedate appearances, facade, <br>Life carried on ignoring threats of war<br>As if genteel existence more and more<br>Created chrysalid safety net. Brocade, <br>Kith, kin in ordained order well arrayed<br>Too often hid uncertainties in store, <br>Impressions maintained for flirt hid dirt on floor.<br>Expections - Empire, rich brigade -<br>Amid light table talk itself betrayed, <br>Fortunes dissipating, from its core<br>Fell rotten apples, all afraid to bore, <br>Awaiting Sarajevo, shell cascade.<br>In spite of surface gloss one class prepared<br>Revolts, spelled revolutions, few unspared.<br> <br>Bloated few fled future's disarray, <br>Led undercover lives where years' tears, doubts, <br>Avoided challenging life's roundabouts, <br>Conventions stifling at odds with hearts astray.<br>Kinky Black tie affairs masked day-to-day<br>Trials and tribulations few dared flout.<br>Impressions hid internal demons, drought<br>Emotional disavowed to prey<br>Archly on time-worn love's interplay, <br>False pretense stiff upper lip throughout<br>Fêtes and fancies bluffing all about<br>As guilty parties sly denied dismay.<br>Infidelities and cummerbund<br>Raised silver spoons' praise, lazing, merit shunned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(4 February 2012)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=424758" data-title="Black Tie Affairs de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Behind sedate appearances, facade, Life carried on ignoring threats of war As if genteel existence more and more Created chrysalid safety net. Brocade, Kith, kin in ordained order well arrayed Too often hid uncertainties in store, Impressions m..."></div> </div> </div>

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