<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=479825" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chasing a Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a lovely spring day<br>When the air is still cool on the skin<br>And touches you<br>Like the forgotten tiny kisses of a lover long gone<br>And the sunshine is warming and bright<br>Like the radiance of his smile<br>Forever stamped in your memory</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I run through cool, tall green grass<br>Chasing butterflies, <br>Like a carefree child that did the same<br>Many years past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the salt on your skin and<br>The dirt on your hands and feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chasing butterflies<br>Happy and carefree.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a clear crisp winter's night<br>When your breath freezes before it's even <br>Come out of your lungs<br>And sticks there like the words you wanted to<br>But could never say to him, <br>Stuck in your throat forever lost there<br>I gather up my skirt like a net<br>and try to catch the falling stars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They shine like the mystery<br>Like the soul I could see in his eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The butterflies have flown out of my reach. <br>They flew higher and higher <br>I ran faster and faster<br>Till I lost my breath and had to <br>Let them be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stars fell too fast for me.<br>I tried to catch them, but it wasn't to be.<br>I've been chasing a dream<br>On a cold foggy morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's beauty could not be put into words.<br>If would only be tarnished and insulted if I tried. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I got out of bed<br>And climbed out the window<br>I chased it and chased it<br>Barefoot in my night gown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It flew and twirled<br>Like a kite escaping it's string..<br>It did somersaults<br>And teased me from far.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ran out of breath<br>And my dream vanished<br>It became part<br>Of the morning fog.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All I had left <br>Were my callused feet.<br>My dirty gown<br>And, of course..<br>Grief stricken me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rabia+Minhas">Rabia Minhas</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=479825" data-title="Chasing a Dream de Rabia Minhas" data-description="On a lovely spring day When the air is still cool on the skin And touches you Like the forgotten tiny kisses of a lover long gone And the sunshine is warming and bright Like the radiance of his smile Forever stamped in your memory I run through c..."></div> </div> </div>

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