<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484217" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Boat By The Silent Pond</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">a boat stays on the silent pond<br>beneath the trees with wide branches<br>it is tied<br>not so tight<br>any child can let it loose <br>and release it and soon<br>it will go and <br>we wonder<br>what is it that it is waiting for<br>and for whom shall <br>this boat go</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is this ride that each shall take<br>no one wants to take it earlier<br>always one says later<br>later <br>there is no hurry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the children have grown and they wear<br>faces like yours<br>they go away and you are left alone<br>with the person you love<br>you have a conversation<br>time goes like a stranger </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the friends you know have either grown old<br>or have died and their coffins pass by your house<br>you remember<br>memories and you smile at the youth you once had</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you remember the boat <br>the child in you has loosened it<br>you pick up on what was easily forgotten<br>you cope up<br>you say you want the ride now<br>it is dark<br>and the silence spreads on the paddle<br>the ripples exude the essence of the journey<br>you hold a hand<br>and you sit comfortably without worry</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is time to go.</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=484217" data-title="A Boat By The Silent Pond de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="a boat stays on the silent pond beneath the trees with wide branches it is tied not so tight any child can let it loose and release it and soon it will go and we wonder what is it that it is waiting for and for whom shall this boat go there is..."></div> </div> </div>

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