<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=532432" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Redemptive Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m envious of strangers<br>When their emotions are less constrained than mine, <br>When they don’t create<br>Emotional barriers<br>Like the ones I’ve constructed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was young, this stone-cold face<br>Was not upon me; <br>I knew thrilling summer days upon a beach<br>Traveling the shoreline with sparkling eyes, <br>I ate exotic fruit in happy pleasure<br>And was in love with the golden dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In those days, I followed the girls<br>Who wore long dresses<br>With the most adorable hemlines<br>That hung slightly above the grass<br>Along the garden path, <br>And I noticed every rose vine<br>Trailing white picket fences in the sunlight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The rain began in adulthood<br>As youthful excitement ebbed<br>And the aroma of wine and flowers<br>No longer hypnotized me with desire, <br>As I accepted life more in terms of responsibilities<br>And less in terms of passionate expression.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I will not remain forever<br>Exiled to forlorn rooms of discontent<br>With people too defeated to even pray, <br>I will again relive the joy of a morning light<br>Breaking like a chandelier.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heaven will gaze affectionately upon me<br>Because I’ll learn to possess mystical redemptive love<br>To no less a degree than an innocent child<br>Who only believes in the kindness<br>Of a human smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Uriah+Hamilton">Uriah Hamilton</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=532432" data-title="Redemptive Love de Uriah Hamilton" data-description="I’m envious of strangers When their emotions are less constrained than mine, When they don’t create Emotional barriers Like the ones I’ve constructed. When I was young, this stone-cold face Was not upon me; I knew thrilling summer days up..."></div> </div> </div>

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