<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575930" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Deadly Speckled Birches (Smoking/Cigarettes)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vika and I walked in a thick forest of birches white and spotted.<br>And many boulders of white lime with black lichens dotted.<br>A thick fog rolled slowly toward like a pudding, creamy and clotted. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something moved behind a fallen speckled log that fog and time have rotted.<br>A wild pack of Dalmatians ahead of the fog then trotted.<br>Stalking us through the birches, what evil had these dogs plotted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We retreated down a hill toward our cabin – our stomachs were knotted.<br>I grabbed a fallen branch and at the nearest one I swatted<br>But we can’t shake the pack – was this all the time the Lord allotted? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, the leader jumps upon a rock and there he perches.<br>And I remember the lesson we had been taught at our churches.<br>God will grant strength and deliverance to he who asks and searches.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so I ask “God please deliver us from this deadly glade, this pack of birches.”<br>And the leader howled the order and we ran for the cabin porches.<br>Charcoal from a smoldering campfire my white shoe besmirches.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the fog tried to envelop us as we ran in sprints and lurches.<br>And I wake from my nightmare and all my soul researches.<br>What warning could this be - the deadly glade of pack, fog, rock, and birches? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walk outside and light a smoke – and understand what I dreamed<br>The vicious foggy white and spotted birches are realer than they seemed.<br>Oh God, grant us the power over addiction, that we may be redeemed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Note: It has been about a year and half since I had this dream, and I was able to quit shortly thereafter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Daniel+Partlow">Daniel Partlow</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=575930" data-title="The Deadly Speckled Birches (Smoking/Cigarettes) de Daniel Partlow" data-description="Vika and I walked in a thick forest of birches white and spotted. And many boulders of white lime with black lichens dotted. A thick fog rolled slowly toward like a pudding, creamy and clotted. Something moved behind a fallen speckled log that f..."></div> </div> </div>

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