<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=489284" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Was, Once, Too Beautiful....</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">first there was a word<br>you listen carefully<br>it is uttered<br>it is not the word<br>but how beauty presents itself to you<br>it is awesome</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then the word was gone<br>you have paid no attention to it<br>it is beauty that<br>strikes you<br>and wish some more to see it again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">beauty parades itself in nudity<br>you fell in awesome silence<br>who can speak about it? <br>you are shut into a room of amazement<br>this wish to possess and hold and<br>not lose the grasp</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but beauty does not belong to you<br>neither does it belong to anyone else<br>it escapes and then lost forever</div><div style="margin:10px 0">time takes it<br>and time does not give it back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you mourn<br>but in the middle of your grief <br>you accept </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i too was once<br>that beauty, so why should i grieve some more? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i too was that beauty<br>that never was once possessed by someone else</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now it is not the grief<br>but that selfishness<br>and greed.</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=489284" data-title="I Was, Once, Too Beautiful.... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="first there was a word you listen carefully it is uttered it is not the word but how beauty presents itself to you it is awesome then the word was gone you have paid no attention to it it is beauty that strikes you and wish some more to see it ag..."></div> </div> </div>

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