<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=579299" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>These City Walls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's no doubt this city's in abundance<br>There's beauty alright, too much to see sometimes<br>The summer varnishes stone buildings like they were a canvas<br>The rivers reflect the scenes, doubling the impact<br>And the people here are smart and easy<br>No trouble, no smashing glass or arses out of car windows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course; they keep the best stuff locked away<br>If you weren't born to money or vast ambition<br>Then you've not earned the right to see some joys<br>Then you're not blessed enough to come inside the walls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These city walls, secrets within arms-reach<br>Exploding summer gardens, ponds, boats, buildings<br>Dining halls, drawing rooms, ancient chapples<br>Wrapped a hundred walls around it all<br>Reserved for the elite, for the wealthy and the 'wise'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still this city holds me in her talons tight<br>Still this place cushions me in its soft paw<br>Strips a few garments here and there<br>To keep me aware of all the beauty bubbling under</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now my times are tainted<br>Now too many feelings have boiled away<br>When I go to other cities<br>They fire my imagination<br>They inspire me with their possibility</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the excitement of not knowing<br>Where this street will take me<br>Oh, the happiness in lost moments<br>Just swimming through confusion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's time to go beyond these city walls<br>It's time to move on<br>From these city walls...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(2009)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=B.+Alexander">B. Alexander</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=579299" data-title="These City Walls de B. Alexander" data-description="There's no doubt this city's in abundance There's beauty alright, too much to see sometimes The summer varnishes stone buildings like they were a canvas The rivers reflect the scenes, doubling the impact And the people here are smart and easy No t..."></div> </div> </div>

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