<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581674" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Villanelle on a Proverb</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The heart once broken is a heart no more.<br>—Edna St. Vincent Millay</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The proverb says that time confers relief, <br>heals a crimson gash or knits whole a bone<br>and years unlock a knuckled fist of grief</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that clenches emptiness in disbelief <br>to keep one's wits from being overthrown, <br>while time, the proverb says, confers relief</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from cleaving wounds, paradoxical thief, <br>that also tears apart fused hearts grown<br>beyond the lock of knuckled-fisted grief</div><div style="margin:10px 0">half-hearts collapsed empty in unbelief<br>at finalities beneath lids of stone, <br>while time, proverbially, confers relief</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by bleaching wounds to scars—its chief<br>repair—but cannot heal a heart left alone<br>although the years unlock the fist of grief, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">proclaiming the proverbial motif<br>that all wounds heal, time cannot atone<br>for vacancy. The proverb lies. Relief<br>unlocks a fist, but not the archived grief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+F+Dougherty">William F Dougherty</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=581674" data-title="Villanelle on a Proverb de William F Dougherty" data-description="The heart once broken is a heart no more. —Edna St. Vincent Millay The proverb says that time confers relief, heals a crimson gash or knits whole a bone and years unlock a knuckled fist of grief that clenches emptiness in disbelief to keep ..."></div> </div> </div>

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