<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124776" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Scribe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm being visited more and more seldom <br>By respiration. <br>I can't breathe anymore -so I can't write therefore, I live no more. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here I ask: <br>The portion of my air I did not breathe <br>(Since I was gone before the deadline) <br>Is it worth anything? <br>At least it could be given to the poor <br>(If this were possible) <br>But this is such an absurd parsimony <br>Of Nothingness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And further on: <br>The thoughts I left unwritten <br>By whom will they be finished? Since grains of sand are not alike <br>How could a new pen different from mine <br>Resume the thread exactly from the point I ceased? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I had just discovered <br>A handful of great subjects, themes. <br>I had already improvised - and it did work - my style <br>Who is the one who will decode my notes <br>Which I could never organize? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it then you who will give answer <br>To these simple, common sense questions <br>You Pure Nothingness?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marin+Sorescu">Marin Sorescu</a>, translated by Catalina Iliescu<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=124776" data-title="The Scribe de Marin Sorescu" data-description="I'm being visited more and more seldom /By respiration. /I can't breathe anymore -so I can't write therefore, I live no more. /And here I ask: /The portion of my air I did not breathe /(Since I was gone before the deadline) /Is it worth anything? ..."></div> </div> </div>

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