<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=494155" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dying Too....</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the bed takes only sleep<br>it has lessened its variety<br>before that<br>years ago<br>it was something else<br>it was more than its nature<br>a playground, <br>even a sea where boats sail<br>where seagulls nest<br>it was a spread of green cool grass<br>even clouds <br>it was even an island of paradise<br>with parakeets<br>and orchids and singing creeks<br>or squeaks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a bed ages<br>those who are in love, and remains to be so<br>keeps it<br>friendship starts to seed<br>flowers bloom, roots widespread</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the bed still becomes a home<br>of shed skin, white hair, <br>uncut fingernails<br>and missing words, and unspoken dreams</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it's long partners, the ceiling and the fan<br>and the bulb that blinks sometimes<br>still vigil the whole night</div><div style="margin:10px 0">time changes everything, it is sad, <br>the bed wears the blanket in white <br>dusts accumulate, pictures are removed <br>from the headboard</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the bed also dies, and then waits again<br>sometime, for the weary, the hopeful<br>and the like all the rest, the dying too.</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=494155" data-title="The Dying Too.... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="the bed takes only sleep it has lessened its variety before that years ago it was something else it was more than its nature a playground, even a sea where boats sail where seagulls nest it was a spread of green cool grass even clouds it was eve..."></div> </div> </div>

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