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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492574" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ruben's Mansion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is not a house<br>in fact, it is a white mansion<br>placed on a one-hectare lot<br>surrounded by a well-manicured<br>garden and flowering shrubs<br>and fruit trees<br>one that everyone cannot but<br>always admire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when they come<br>and watch<br>Ruben's mansion<br>taking 2 years to finish<br>and 12 million pesos<br>in expenditures</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as you go inside<br>the glass door opens<br>leading you<br>to a living room<br>twice as large<br>as my own house<br>in a remote barrio</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the furniture are carved<br>from molave trees<br>shining with shellac<br>and glistening<br>with opulence<br>the motif of this<br>house</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the kitchen is huge<br>four times as wide<br>as my garage<br>accommodating only<br>my second hand car</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the garage<br>is one that can handle<br>a party for the night<br>of ten tables and <br>fifty chairs and <br>a hundred people</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one wonders<br>why Ruben has to make<br>a mansion like this</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sheer taste perhaps<br>or his money <br>simply searching for something<br>to buy and spend<br>looking for some<br>vents</div><div style="margin:10px 0">did he remember<br>how as a child<br>the family was shamed<br>because visitors<br>from Bohol<br>in 1970 could not<br>be accommodated<br>and they all murmured<br>how poor they were? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it must be traumatic<br>for Ruben<br>as a child<br>and it must be some <br> trauma<br>that molded his dream<br>to build a mansion<br>like this? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(or am i just<br>jealous<br>of his ambition) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i need not ask some<br>more<br>his lips are sealed<br>he is dead<br>and he has no way<br>explaining<br>a sensitive matter as building<br>a mansion<br>while the rest still<br>thrives on<br>mediocre houses and<br>unfinished makeshifts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and no one lives <br>in this house anymore</div><div style="margin:10px 0">perhaps some dreams<br>still live here<br>dreams unfulfilled</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>and once fulfilled<br>these dreams now<br>refuse to die</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a mansion is still a house<br>and when no one lives there<br>need i say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that it is never a home<br>and after this party<br>tendered in the name of Ruben<br>we all go home<br>and then think for once</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i must build a home<br>and for the meantime forget about a mansion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or just a house.</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>
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