<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=337066" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Things Shouldn't Be So Hard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A life should leave<br>deep tracks:<br>ruts where she<br>went out and back<br>to get the mail<br>or move the hose<br>around the yard;<br>where she used to<br>stand before the sink,<br>a worn-out place;<br>beneath her hand<br>the china knobs<br>rubbed down to <br>white pastilles;<br>the switch she <br>used to feel for <br>in the dark<br>almost erased.<br>Her things should <br>keep her marks.<br>The passage<br>of a life should show;<br>it should abrade.<br>And when life stops,<br>a certain space—<br>however small—<br>should be left scarred <br>by the grand and <br>damaging parade.<br>Things shouldn't <br>be so hard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kay+Ryan">Kay Ryan</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=337066" data-title="Things Shouldn't Be So Hard de Kay Ryan" data-description="A life should leave/deep tracks:/ruts where she/went out and back/to get the mail/or move the hose/around the yard;/where she used to/stand before the sink,/a worn-out place;/beneath her hand/the china knobs/rubbed down to /white pastilles;/the sw..."></div> </div> </div>

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