<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457467" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gabriella (A Third Birthday...Without)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gabriella, I am so sorry I have not been there-<br>Please do not take this to mean that I do not care! <br>I love you more than you could imagine possible, <br>I ponder each day how to make our consort plausible! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was not there to see you open your first Christmas gift, <br>Both you and I have been victims of a horrible grift; <br>Nor was I there to celebrate when you turned one, <br>One day, you will learn of how this iniquity was done! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you turned two, again, my absence loomed-<br>Since last I saw thee, my heart has been entombed! <br>In just a few more days, you shall become three, <br>Alas, you shall have to do this not near to me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So many precious memories did they, from us, abscond-<br>Lo, they shan't ever take from us our familial bond! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sikerly my Angel, you are with me everyday, guarded<br>In mine own heart, as though we two ne'er parted! <br>I can have this no other way, lest my heart break, <br>Whence upon ponderance of what they did take; <br>Each solitary nox, as I lie myself down to sleep, <br>I pray for God to return you to me, as I unabashedly weep! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know not how, nor where, nor even when-<br>Yet, I know that you and I shall be together again; <br>It is my singular, all-consuming, driving force-<br>From this injustice, I simply must coerce<br>What is right and best, for you and I, alone-<br>As for all others-for their wrongs, they must atone! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Happy Birthday my precious little Angel, and many more-<br>Until I may celebrate life with you, as it was, before! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maurice Harris,27 January 2010</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Maurice+Harris">Maurice Harris</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=457467" data-title="Gabriella (A Third Birthday...Without) de Maurice Harris" data-description="Gabriella, I am so sorry I have not been there- Please do not take this to mean that I do not care! I love you more than you could imagine possible, I ponder each day how to make our consort plausible! I was not there to see you open your firs..."></div> </div> </div>

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