<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511586" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two poems about separation, different themes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The separation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I put the money in a bucket, <br>lowered it down to him<br>taking care that the notes<br>didn't fly off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He made a grab for the pail, <br>clutched it greedily <br>as he'd once held me<br>and walked away, grinning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A bucket load of money <br>was all he'd ever wanted, <br>and now, at last, <br>he was sated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Separation came as a friend<br>and though I'm left poorer<br>I feel as rich as a King<br>and better for it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Separation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can't put into words, <br>can't express, <br>the anxiety, <br>sadness, <br>worry<br>it caused me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can't tell you how I cried, <br>how my stomach hurt, <br>how I stressed<br>and fretted<br>and then ___<br>I saw you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'd lost weight, <br>you were a shadow, <br>of your former self, <br>your eyes were sunken in <br>you were grief stricken and <br>you reached for my hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We walked, together, <br>through the emptiness<br>and somehow <br>the separation, <br>the loneliness<br>had been a transition</div><div style="margin:10px 0">mending the rift between us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ruth+Walters">Ruth Walters</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=511586" data-title="Two poems about separation, different themes de Ruth Walters" data-description="The separation I put the money in a bucket, lowered it down to him taking care that the notes didn't fly off. He made a grab for the pail, clutched it greedily as he'd once held me and walked away, grinning. A bucket load of money was all h..."></div> </div> </div>

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