<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511201" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Blade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a blade of no ill repute, I'll never slice you, upwards I shoot, <br> <br>Tall and thin though I am, I'm no animal nor am I a man, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I go where I please, here and there, some places I'm everywhere, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You may cut me, trim me, and pluck me when you're bored, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I claim the hills, the valleys, I claim the ground unscathed by man's wrath, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a blade, broad and straight, I'm always early and never too late, <br> <br>You wage war and spill blood over me, You ruin me and give me life, <br> <br>I go where I please mostly unhindered, you may fall on me and remain uninjured, <br> <br>You have all seen me in one place or another for I do not hide, for I am better on either side, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hold your world together but I am no hero, no one praises me, not one, zero, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without my kind working together I would die in the simplest weather, <br> <br>I am a blade strong and true, alone I am useless, nothing to prove, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remain long after you've gone from this place, I do not boast, this is no race, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nature will take it's coarse and eventually I will die, more like me will come and shoot for the sky, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The animals of the land bite me and eat me, some animals do so with haste, born anew within their waste, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A field bereft of my presence may seem like desecration, simply the result of a bovine and rumination, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the mighty blade by my own decree, I spread across the land as far as you can see, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm not trying to rule the world, I'm only being me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ruik+Caldorn">Ruik Caldorn</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=511201" data-title="The Blade de Ruik Caldorn" data-description="I am a blade of no ill repute, I'll never slice you, upwards I shoot, Tall and thin though I am, I'm no animal nor am I a man, I go where I please, here and there, some places I'm everywhere, You may cut me, trim me, and pluck me when you'r..."></div> </div> </div>

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