<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424966" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Downfall - 1053 - Current Version of Fallen is Star</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fallen is star which once brightly, <br>there clear in fair firmament shone, <br>no trace now remains as Time lightly<br>grieves sleeves, life's sheeved leaves ever gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love's star which once seemed infinitely<br>to bloom beyond tomb meets doom, dumb, <br>as sentiments sent expeditely<br>to Lethe mock joyride's vain sum.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreams' themes lie unechoed, contritely<br>one wonders what might have become<br>if fate had dealt less reconditely<br>ere great expectations succumb.<br> <br>Whosoever would compromise slightly<br>with principles life's staff has spun<br>must offer impression unsightly<br>some pity, some spurn, and most shun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ideals threading vision so knightly<br>no gleam still retain - what begun<br>in trust unembellished rusts, rightly<br>forgotten, ignored or undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No point in requesting politely<br>what became of game, quest, aim, fête's fun; <br>in tatters Fate scatters forthrightly<br>all trace of race no-one has won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though today some may say hale and sprightly<br>‘tomorrow holds promise' - yet none<br>would relinquish life's tether held tightly, <br>soon Time spills, boon numbed, still, distance run. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(1 February 2010)</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=424966" data-title="Downfall - 1053 - Current Version of Fallen is Star de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Fallen is star which once brightly, there clear in fair firmament shone, no trace now remains as Time lightly grieves sleeves, life's sheeved leaves ever gone. Love's star which once seemed infinitely to bloom beyond tomb meets doom, dumb, as ..."></div> </div> </div>

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