<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=488018" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For My Peers Who Made It Good In The Big City</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">it was with a sad heart that i left all of you<br>from that big city that promised to give me all the glitter<br>of the neon lights<br>an island of fame where my body<br>and my face shall take<br>the center of the stage<br>where i may wallow in the deafening<br>sound of clapping hands<br>and a shower of flowers<br>as i sing and dance<br>and be the star of all your<br>dreams and wishes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am twisted<br>you all write me a letter<br>i am hardheaded <br>you condemn me for i broke the promise<br>of what i could have been</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i choose the little town by the sea<br>where the waves all speak of sorrow<br>where the trees grow unprecedented and without pruning<br>the ugliness of their branches speak of ill-will and<br>pronounced unfashionably<br>nature's untrammeled simplicity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the newspapers speak of your breakthroughs<br>all your names in bold letters and colored<br>your cars and mansions your latest creations<br>your glory and victories</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my day begins in silence and it ends in silence<br>i sleep with nightmares i talk my walks at midnights</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how can i be so stupid? all the leaves ask me, and all the trees<br>when i begin to speak, run barefoot away from me<br>the eggs of little birds on the nest on branches falling and broken and wasted</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=488018" data-title="For My Peers Who Made It Good In The Big City de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="it was with a sad heart that i left all of you from that big city that promised to give me all the glitter of the neon lights an island of fame where my body and my face shall take the center of the stage where i may wallow in the deafening sound ..."></div> </div> </div>

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