<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540749" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a child on not returning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When time was an island in which we basked</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Riding the river as it flowed past</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Skimming stones in hazy lazy days</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Knowing the immeasurable depth of the sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Cloud spotting</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Tree hawking</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lying under trees mast</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In fields, rolls back</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The camera from the eye</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No 'need ' for states of happiness or bliss</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Just this! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Sad dumb animals languishing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Beneath a blazing sun</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Niether knowing whence they came</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Or whence they would be gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Roll back the camera from the eye</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The careful pose</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'The smile' of yesterday</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Nothing is lonelier than a child waving goodbye</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> To the other self, the adult, leaving home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> All other things buried</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> These trinkets of the past</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Though the photograph is fading</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Still the smile is holding fast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> yvette smith</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yvette+Smith">Yvette Smith</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=540749" data-title="To a child on not returning de Yvette Smith" data-description="When time was an island in which we basked Riding the river as it flowed past Skimming stones in hazy lazy days Knowing the immeasurable depth of the sky Cloud spotting Tree hawking Lying under trees mast In fields, rolls back The ..."></div> </div> </div>

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