<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571166" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sand in the car</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once we were one, <br>a family with unified hopes<br>united in vacation<br>to the beach on a sunny day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The children made castles of sand<br>that slowly crumbled, <br>assaulted by a rising tide, <br>a kingdom eroded as the day grew old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We piled into the car<br>as the first rays of nighttime<br>broke the sky into a panorama<br>of colorful clouds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That car, Toyota Corolla, <br>the most reliable car I have ever owned<br>where we kissed and held hands at stop lights<br>was yours in the divorce.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was the birthplace of dreams, <br>the setting for romance strong enough<br>for a blockbuster movie, <br>scripted in the sand from our children's feets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You sold the car, <br>and I pray you sold it to a man<br>who doesn't own a vacuum, <br>so that the sand can live, <br>though we have died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+W.+McEwers">John W. McEwers</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=571166" data-title="Sand in the car de John W. McEwers" data-description="Once we were one, a family with unified hopes united in vacation to the beach on a sunny day. The children made castles of sand that slowly crumbled, assaulted by a rising tide, a kingdom eroded as the day grew old. We piled into the car as t..."></div> </div> </div>

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