<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559147" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In the Ravages of War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the ravages of war<br>Imminent<br>The soul of the country has gone<br>Languishing<br>But the man who after thirty years<br>In his Italian suit<br>And crocodile skin shoes<br>Who apparently talked sense<br>Who was neither the idealist<br>The revolutionary<br>The mad man of masses<br>Nor a poet<br>Who lived in mansions<br>Who reappeared again<br>Who put his documents<br>With his youthful photograph<br>Who had gone old now<br>Not much<br>Who wanted his Mercedes to be allowed<br>To be imported<br>Who was a tycoon of transit business<br>Who had grown his fortunes<br>In many other countries<br>Who was all smiles<br>Obedient<br>Who may have rescued<br>Some Lauras*<br>From their lovers<br>To safe heavens<br>Who offered his visiting card<br>To be kept<br>For rainy days<br>Who was the man<br>Who sold the world<br>Wisely<br>In the ravages of war<br>4/12/2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*Laura: The epic heroine of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sadiqullah+Khan">Sadiqullah Khan</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=559147" data-title="In the Ravages of War de Sadiqullah Khan" data-description="From the ravages of war Imminent The soul of the country has gone Languishing But the man who after thirty years In his Italian suit And crocodile skin shoes Who apparently talked sense Who was neither the idealist The revolutionary The mad man of..."></div> </div> </div>

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