<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=489449" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Imelda's Fall</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the rooms of the old house in olot <br>closed, the sound of the sea so deafening<br>her blind masseur still comes here often<br>perhaps reminiscing always the past, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the indonesian goddess by the gate is headless<br>another god of the sea lost his left hand<br>the ex-president comes here using the people's submarine<br>as she dances the night away with her fourteen ladies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Sto Nino inside a man-made cave lost his right eye<br>on another corner, stands St. Joseph with only one hand<br>the grandeur is lost<br>this place<br>there is nothing spectacular now<br>except the contempt <br>of power and abuse of people's trust<br>power is temporary</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a bad memory lasts for a lifetime<br>she has fallen out of grace<br>everything in her room is locked<br>dusty, <br>only the rats and the cockroaches<br>now applaud her greatness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all her friends are gone<br>we do not know this place now<br>we are only reminded</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and they always say<br>that the past need not be repeated<br>the sun sets finally<br>the orange hues are gone<br>and what comes next is the total darkness <br>of this place<br>once great<br>now in utter ruin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then we decided to move on<br>to the next place of our tourist destination</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=489449" data-title="Imelda's Fall de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="the rooms of the old house in olot closed, the sound of the sea so deafening her blind masseur still comes here often perhaps reminiscing always the past, the indonesian goddess by the gate is headless another god of the sea lost his left hand ..."></div> </div> </div>

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