<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=496020" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Those Cruel Days Of Our Youth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">when we were children<br>when father beats us<br>thinking that we become <br>angels when thoroughly beaten<br>and prides stepped upon<br>we never really screamed<br>neither did i remember that<br>we went through an extreme<br>silence for a long time<br>as two or three hours<br>since you must perhaps <br>recall that we easily forgot<br>the hurt and when father was gone<br>looking for money<br>we rose again from where we lurked<br>and start to run into the <br>playgrounds of our house<br>and the neighborhood<br>reunited with friends who<br>climbed trees swim in rivers<br>dove those cliffs splashing into<br>deep seas bluer than clouds<br>like slippery fish with<br>scales as hard as turtles<br>sooner did we realize that<br>we carry the house of happiness<br>on our backs like knapsacks<br>ready, always ready to go<br>somewhere else where we<br>cannot be hurt where our prides<br>are never never stepped upon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and father was proud and<br>then he died.</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=496020" data-title="Those Cruel Days Of Our Youth de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="when we were children when father beats us thinking that we become angels when thoroughly beaten and prides stepped upon we never really screamed neither did i remember that we went through an extreme silence for a long time as two or three hours..."></div> </div> </div>

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