<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=125003" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Under One Small Star</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.<br>My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all.<br>Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.<br>May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.<br>My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.<br>My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first.<br>Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.<br>Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger.<br>I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths.<br>I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today at five a.m.<br>Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time.<br>Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.<br>And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage,<br>your gaze always fixed on the same point in space,<br>forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed.<br>My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs.<br>My apologies to great questions for small answers.<br>Truth, please don't pay me much attention.<br>Dignity, please be magnanimous.<br>Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.<br>Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then.<br>My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once.<br>My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man.<br>I know I won't be justified as long as I live,<br>since I myself stand in my own way.<br>Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,<br>then labor heavily so that they may seem light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wislawa+Szymborska">Wislawa Szymborska</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=125003" data-title="Under One Small Star de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="My apologies to chance for calling it necessity./My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all./Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due./May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade./My apologies to time for all..."></div> </div> </div>

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