<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=520752" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love's Isolation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the sorrowful past, <br>When Love theoretically conquered all, <br>I found myself wandering in a forest<br>Of reeds, lost & unloved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Finally she & she came along, <br>Marriage was in the works<br>But it failed miserably, <br>Childlessly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I entered the stage of rebellion<br>(cf Camus' insightful The Rebel): <br>Drinking and drugging were all <br>I had on my hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then along came my current wife<br>Of thirty years<br>And we flourished in money & timeless love.<br>I can watch her now, burrowed in bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think of how many divorces Italian-style<br>Have come & gone during our time; <br>It is a miracle we remain together <br>Chained in the domain of love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thinking about what constitutes it<br>I am wont to say patience, above all patience; <br>And more importantly for self-preservation, <br>Remaining a gentleman and putting up with the flares of madness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That surely will raise its broken brain some rainy day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Stan+Petrovich">Stan Petrovich</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=520752" data-title="Love's Isolation de Stan Petrovich" data-description="In the sorrowful past, When Love theoretically conquered all, I found myself wandering in a forest Of reeds, lost & unloved. Finally she & she came along, Marriage was in the works But it failed miserably, Childlessly. I entered the stage of..."></div> </div> </div>

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