<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509714" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stop the Game, Please!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave alone, please! <br>I cannot copy <br>Your methods anymore, <br>Take your advice away<br>And donate it to charity<br>Instead of burdening <br>My delicate condition<br>With long formed <br>Cultural habits...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have reached a point<br>Where you must take me<br>Or leave me<br>As I come to you_<br>I will not learn new ways<br>Mine are cemented in trial<br>And constant error...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a tree first planted, <br>The seed of an unwilling <br>New generation, <br>Left wild to grow freely <br>In the unrestrained air<br>Of a wood possessed<br>By no earthly proprietor, <br>Out, saved, molded <br>Into manageable bits, <br>Cast off for an eternity <br>And dry out all its life-<br>Preserving moisture and tossed <br>Inconsiderately into flames<br>Which never dies...<br>Consumed in the name of necessity, <br>Practicality burned, scorched, <br>Poked at and reduced to ashes...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cannot be planted <br>In this ground again<br>And be made to grow into anything, <br>Anymore I can nurture a warm home-<br>Matter, once destroyed, <br>Will not return<br>In the same structure! <br>I will appear again, <br>Immaterial and immortal<br>For the body dies<br>But never the soul...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>©All Rights Reserved-2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Romeo+Della+Valle">Romeo Della Valle</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=509714" data-title="Stop the Game, Please! de Romeo Della Valle" data-description="Leave alone, please! I cannot copy Your methods anymore, Take your advice away And donate it to charity Instead of burdening My delicate condition With long formed Cultural habits... I have reached a point Where you must take me Or leave me ..."></div> </div> </div>

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