<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=497419" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When light and air were born</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When light and air were first born <br>Man came, <br>And woman followed, <br>So filled <br>With awe & wonder, <br>What is this light that makes them see? <br>What is this air that makes them breathe and live? <br>Definitions were made, <br>In awe and wonder, What it feels when air gets <br>Into their lungs what it feels when they Walk in the light and not stumble on stones? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The years accumulated like layers and layers Of earth and fire and rocks and earth and sea <br>Came then some cataclysmic changes While more and more <br>Men and women and lots of children came <br>Inhabiting this earth <br>And awe and wonder <br>Were lost, More changes came that kill and annihilate and <br>Men and women and children were so preoccupied with saving themselves, Forgetting how air first filled their lungs Forgetting how light first guided them not to stumble to stones, <br>Now air and light <br>Have become so ordinary, & no one really remembers about how it was at first No one really cares to recall what first was, <br>Men and women and children are so busy <br>Preoccupied with darkness, <br>these choking blankets darkness <br>These poisonous packets of air, <br>so debilitating, so deadly & <br>some of the children Simply dropped dead on the streets, and fear so gripped the men and women<br>gripes and grimes geometrically hurried in their hearts, <br>Night’s darkness <br>The darkness of insensitivity<br>buried them and indeed things change and <br>everything goes from bad to worst </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What was it at first, is now not felt anymore, what was first <br>was taken for granted and finally forgotten, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where is the awe? Where is the wonder? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men and women and children, where are you all going?</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=497419" data-title="When light and air were born de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="When light and air were first born Man came, And woman followed, So filled With awe & wonder, What is this light that makes them see? What is this air that makes them breathe and live? Definitions were made, In awe and wonder, What it feel..."></div> </div> </div>

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