<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448686" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scarletts Melancholy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What did Scarlett know; <br>her green velvet dress<br>was made from draperies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What did Scarlett feel; <br>hunger<br>more than Brett's love? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did Love burn like Atlanta<br>in her breast; <br>did Hope incinerate there? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or is it that flames<br>don't burn<br>because they're already afire? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was Brett the ice and Scarlett the flame? <br>Does Fire Love more than it burns? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are we all at base visceral<br>and Love a luxury<br>which cannot compete<br>with green dresses<br>made from draperies? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is all of this Cruel Irony<br>which sears<br>the soul<br>as we choose<br>food and soil<br>instead of sweet Love's face<br>and instead hunker down<br>just outside our<br>Forsaken Dreams; <br>disheveled and confused? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too sad this tale<br>but bright too<br>because Scarlett knew<br>that even as she<br>contemplated Love's Abandonment<br>for Security<br>that green drapes<br>don't really cuddle at night; <br>and while Brett was not her love<br>he was Love's Embodiment<br>and for her<br>the Soul's<br>the only True <br>Nourishment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But she was weakened<br>by the Plantation Dream<br>that Princesses<br>Dream<br>turning away<br>from Love's Face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can a Princess be<br>without Love or Dream? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is Scarlett's Melancholy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</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=448686" data-title="Scarletts Melancholy de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="What did Scarlett know; her green velvet dress was made from draperies. What did Scarlett feel; hunger more than Brett's love? Did Love burn like Atlanta in her breast; did Hope incinerate there? Or is it that flames don't burn because the..."></div> </div> </div>

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