<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=496015" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Those Better Years</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the farm yielded<br>more than what the <br>storehouse can <br>ever hold</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the mangoes ripen<br>with no one to <br>pick them up</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the birds feast on the<br>grains and the butterflies<br>feast on fruit juices<br>dropping to the<br>grassy ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the rivers are clean<br>crystal clear creeks<br>with fish teeming</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the seas have white<br>seagulls over them<br>the bottom all filled<br>with corals and<br>fish crowding</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the crabs bite us <br>when we pass the river<br>we never pick any</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the geese abound <br>and no one uses a gun<br>to kill anyone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there were no cities then<br>no tyrants no conquerors<br>there was peace<br>and progress</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until the discoverers came<br>and named our lands<br>in the name of their king.</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=496015" data-title="Those Better Years de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="the farm yielded more than what the storehouse can ever hold the mangoes ripen with no one to pick them up the birds feast on the grains and the butterflies feast on fruit juices dropping to the grassy ground the rivers are clean crystal cle..."></div> </div> </div>

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