<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=496228" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Be Real</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">to be real as a man<br>to be more<br>of the man<br>in our humanity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one must fall<br>into sin<br>and feel<br>the misery<br>of our ancestors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one must<br>experience what falling is<br>in sin<br>in guilt<br>in falling from grace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only then<br>can you feel what Adam and Eve<br>felt the first time<br>only then<br>can paradise be so<br>meaningful</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only then<br>can the snake and the apple<br>be so real</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the hardness of its<br>flesh right<br>in your own hands<br>the crispness<br>of its taste<br>right in your teeth and tongue</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only then<br>can God be so loud<br>that you cannot<br>but hear Him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">only then<br>after the fall<br>that you can feel the gentleness<br>of God<br>whose hands caress<br>the entangled hairs<br>in your head</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is in the falling<br>that grace comes<br>and mercy and compassion<br>so real<br>and so understandable</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=496228" data-title="To Be Real de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="to be real as a man to be more of the man in our humanity one must fall into sin and feel the misery of our ancestors one must experience what falling is in sin in guilt in falling from grace only then can you feel what Adam and Eve felt the fi..."></div> </div> </div>

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