<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543551" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Single Birthday Candle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good Christ, he said to the mirror<br>you certainly look your age<br>hair retreating to the rear<br>bleary eyes<br>gray stubble <br>another night spent carousing<br>takes a toll all right<br>you could have spent the hours<br>instead <br>on the unfinished manuscript<br>lying bereft on the desk</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tell us what you thought<br>when you embarked on this voyage, <br>leaving your native land<br>for the shores of Chicago? <br>No answer? - you faltered<br>for fear of failure? ....'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He turned from his reflection<br>to light a single candle<br>in the dark</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Pruchnicki">Michael Pruchnicki</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=543551" data-title="A Single Birthday Candle de Michael Pruchnicki" data-description="Good Christ, he said to the mirror you certainly look your age hair retreating to the rear bleary eyes gray stubble another night spent carousing takes a toll all right you could have spent the hours instead on the unfinished manuscript lying be..."></div> </div> </div>

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