<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570320" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Reflections On Leaves</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You answer me across the years<br> when I ask what it means to be alive<br>It means peace with myself, <br> my world, and my god<br>It means freedom to roam unhindered<br> to gather experience<br> to absorb the ambiance of America<br>But the American Rugged Individualist<br> has joined the endangered species list<br>He is ostracized, alienated, imprisoned, <br> and often encouraged to die<br>He may soon follow the passenger pigeon<br> into North American legend<br>And the Wide Open Spaces<br> have been closed by barbed wire<br> and real estate development<br>The great American quilt has become a blanket -<br> a land of fast food and golf courses<br>But perhaps I romanticize the past<br> maybe you too struggled with the purpose of existence<br> maybe you too felt helpless, hopeless, and meaningless<br>Perhaps you too howled into the night<br> 'What's it all for? What am I for? '<br>I know I am not the first to ask these questions<br> I know I will not be the last<br>But now the answers seem muddied<br> perhaps they were never there at all<br>And perhaps most discouragingly, I realize<br> even nostalgia isn't what it used to be</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rob+McKercher">Rob McKercher</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=570320" data-title="Reflections On Leaves de Rob McKercher" data-description="You answer me across the years when I ask what it means to be alive It means peace with myself, my world, and my god It means freedom to roam unhindered to gather experience to absorb the ambiance of America But the American Rugged Individual..."></div> </div> </div>

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