<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464511" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Replacement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Amid the village is a deserted house, <br>That gives depressing impressions to the onlookers, <br>The windows and doors are shabby broken<br>There dangle bats on the walls at nights, and crows caw<br>At noons in the branches where nightingales sang, <br>And often at nights mysterious sounds we hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! Four decades ago it was inhibited, <br>Noise of the children spilled out of its walls, <br>They all played hide and seek with the befriended kids.<br>I too played believing in the innocent notion <br>That time and tide could not part us asunder, <br>Whether rains rain and clouds thunder, <br>But my self-assumed belief proved fragile, <br>Then the shocking moments approached, <br>And occupants departed to a better dwelling abroad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often recall the moment when they departed, <br>The whole village gathered, men, women and children wept, <br>Their eyes were red as if blood would dropp soon; <br>They were kissing, embracing the departing fellows, <br>I wept too stealthily, and felt as if my soul was being torn apart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now after many years their descendents come and go, <br>Nobody receives or bids them farewell, nor do they bother anyone, <br>And each time they visit, they replace on the gate, <br>The rusty lock with the new one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</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=464511" data-title="Replacement de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="Amid the village is a deserted house, That gives depressing impressions to the onlookers, The windows and doors are shabby broken There dangle bats on the walls at nights, and crows caw At noons in the branches where nightingales sang, And ofte..."></div> </div> </div>

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