<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=465018" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epistle To An Old Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are a doctor now - I've heard<br>A colourful glass jar<br>Your figure<br>With a dedicative label<br>Of service to the sick and the suffering.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've heard<br>Your dreams have come true<br>The waning, waxing moons<br>Of quaint wishes<br>We saw together<br>Have blossomed to fullness.<br>Away and beyond<br>In lands overseas<br>All chapters of your book<br>Of youthful ambitions<br>Have come to be written.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've heard<br>You have got all you ever<br>Wished for, desired.<br>All ideals realized.<br>A higher academic degree<br>Fame, renown and status<br>A pretty home<br>A loving husband - and children! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Salutations<br>Best wishes<br>For all th' laurels won<br>All that you've done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But O my Messiah<br>Of long-forgotton woes! <br>Did you ever give<br>A backward glance? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The time-worn memory album<br>Was always there to see<br>Faces, friendly and faithful<br>Dust-laden though<br>In the pledges of everlasting rememberance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What lenses<br>Of remorse<br>Will ever reveal visages of past? <br>How'll you ever<br>Bridge the empty spaces<br>Rolling from dreams<br>To eyes - and beyond? <br>How'll you ever<br>Put soothing balm<br>On your self-afflicted wounds?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Naseer+Ahmed+Nasir">Naseer Ahmed Nasir</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=465018" data-title="Epistle To An Old Friend de Naseer Ahmed Nasir" data-description="You are a doctor now - I've heard A colourful glass jar Your figure With a dedicative label Of service to the sick and the suffering. I've heard Your dreams have come true The waning, waxing moons Of quaint wishes We saw together Have blossomed t..."></div> </div> </div>

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