Fallen out of love..
The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the field of grain and she saw the river through the trees.
“And we could have all this,” she said.
“And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.”
“What did you say?”
“I said we could have everything.”
“No, we can’t.”
“We can have the whole world.”
“No, we can’t”
“We can go everywhere.”
“No, we can’t. It isn’t not ours any more.”
“It’s ours”
“No, it isn’t’. And once they take it away, you never get it back.”
“But they haven’t taken it away.”
“We’ll wait and see.”
“Come on back in the shade,” he said. “You mustn’t feel that way.”
This kind of reminds me of how the world is being run…..
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These were words written almost a hundred years ago now. Still every time I read, it is just so beautiful to me…
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