<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460733" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0271 The Covering</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was not bright enough, not bright enough<br>to show itself to them, to all; to tempt<br>the world to bring it gifts; the coloured wool<br>would say to them look here, look here</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it was not strong enough, not strong enough<br>to meet the heat, the cold; to venture<br>in the world’s bright gifts; the coloured wool<br>would warm it in the cold, the cold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it was not safe enough, not safe enough<br>to shield itself from hurt; to live its life<br>amid the strong, the weak; the coloured wool<br>would hide it from the hurt, the hurt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there was not care enough, not care enough; <br>the wool was knotted; slipped and slid<br>around its centre there; the coloured wool<br>is knotted here and here and here</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is not time enough, not time enough<br>to free the wool; the wool it would cast off<br>from off its centre there; the coloured wool<br>that never was the need, the need</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there were not words enough, not words enough<br>to free itself; itself which never had the need<br>to bind itself in coloured wools; it did not trust<br>the bright, the strong, the safe, the care, the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460733" data-title="0271 The Covering de Michael Shepherd" data-description="It was not bright enough, not bright enough to show itself to them, to all; to tempt the world to bring it gifts; the coloured wool would say to them look here, look here it was not strong enough, not strong enough to meet the heat, the cold; to ..."></div> </div> </div>

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