<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=491290" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not All Truths Are Sweet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">to sweet truths we toast<br>we clink the glasses<br>of clarity for they are <br>those that make us so alive<br>and those that make us fly<br>like blithe spirits<br>in the vast blue skies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but not all truths are sweet<br>those that are bitter<br>are also placed on our tables<br>and we too shall drink <br>them </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but how? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">shall i like you die<br>in an instant? without<br>bidding goodbye<br>to our loved ones? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">no. I must take these<br>bitter truths <br>like i am a man<br>responsible <br>to a world of<br>compromises, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i too, i know, must<br>drink the bitter potion, <br>but slowly and gently<br>enough to <br>immunize me from <br>the venoms of stupor<br>& eventual death</div><div style="margin:10px 0">gentle to myself <br>these bitter truths<br>cannot kill me<br>but must make <br>me stronger</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=491290" data-title="Not All Truths Are Sweet de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="to sweet truths we toast we clink the glasses of clarity for they are those that make us so alive and those that make us fly like blithe spirits in the vast blue skies but not all truths are sweet those that are bitter are also placed on our tab..."></div> </div> </div>

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