<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=483807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>22</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I cannot touch you<br>With my fingers, as I cannot take a longer<br>Gaze at you without being condemned<br>As I cannot be always with you even longer than a minute, as I cannot sit beside you without being<br>Despised, as I cannot talk to you about<br>How people love and love so true<br>Without being ridiculed, <br>As I cannot<br>Offer you fresh white flowers as symbols of my affection, <br>As I cannot send you a greeting card wishing you well, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I cannot hold your hand even in casual friendship, <br>As I cannot<br>Take you to dinner and be myself sharing<br>What I can give you, <br>As I cannot<br>Hug you and kiss you and make love to you even in the wildest of my dreams imaginations without me dying in sin and guilt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I cannot walk with you in a park<br>Without being</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ostracized by this decent society</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will just think of you in milder forms in decent thoughts, <br>And write about you in clean and clear words, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That will just be enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I always look at you on this one-way mirror tinted with silver, <br>And so you do not notice<br>And so no one knows.<br>Because, <br>Strictly, I am prohibited<br>And that to me is loud and clear.<br>And by all means within my powers, I have to gently obey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=483807" data-title="22 de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="As I cannot touch you With my fingers, as I cannot take a longer Gaze at you without being condemned As I cannot be always with you even longer than a minute, as I cannot sit beside you without being Despised, as I cannot talk to you about How peo..."></div> </div> </div>

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