Vlad wrote:
<br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Discarded treasure; abandoned beneath the stars,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">This far we weathered; in tandem we each see scars.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Mountainous masses; a malignant mound,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Pitiful piles stacked up by the pound.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">A dreary disposal; forever dammed,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">We're weary and lonesome; never a chance.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">One afternoon we were approached by a gentle being,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Looking as worn as us, yet relentless, freeing.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">He gazed upon us, sparks whisked in his eyes,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">With an energy booming, persistent and spry.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Bending down he ran his fingers across one of our covers,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Romeo and Juliette, a classic tale of two lovers.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Then Alice, sweet Alice, about her tremendous journey,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">And Oliver Twist, that poor boy and his endless worry.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">His eyes were alight, burning with passion and flare,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">He disappeared for a moment, then came back with a chair,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Upon it he sat, at the top of our mountain,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Foreign, familiar; raindrops on a fountain.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">As he grew, we loved him, through the best and the worst,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">And he loved us back, becoming immersed in our words.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">In time he married, had a son and a daughter,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">How proud we were, he became a man and a father.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">To this day he still visits, brings his children as well,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">Reading stories out loud of Alladin or Belle.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">We'll never forget him, he brought us purpose and love,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">And grandkids who roam freely like the sea or a dove.</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">He whispers gratitude, admires our craft,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">And while we can't thank him in words,</span><br style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;"><span style="color: rgb170, 170, 170; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center; : rgb26, 26, 26;">He knows we already have.</span> |