<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450598" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Had a Vision</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dreamed a dream, a vision came to me.<br>Lost youth imploring, 'God, we beg of Thee! '<br>With lined and aged face, though they were young, <br>They plead for mercy, silence had no tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At flooding shore, they streached for higher ground.<br>Earth slipped beneath them, cries the only sound.<br>Extending them my hand, they could not reach.<br>In tides of sorrow, eyes their only speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Debauchery engulfed them, steeped in brine.<br>Their temple housed an hedonistic shrine.<br>They struggled for the surface, death their fate.<br>Akashic records were the scrivener's slate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Past hope, their childhood blossemed all too soon.<br>Depraved, they thought that life would not impugn.<br>Within the deep I entered in their mind, <br>So many broken promises, so blind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sadness is: The waste of all those years.<br>The irony is: The sea was their own tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</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=450598" data-title="I Had a Vision de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="I dreamed a dream, a vision came to me. Lost youth imploring, 'God, we beg of Thee! ' With lined and aged face, though they were young, They plead for mercy, silence had no tongue. At flooding shore, they streached for higher ground. Earth slipp..."></div> </div> </div>

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